From courtrooms in New York City to South Texas and central Florida, politicians facing criminal charges are testing out their own versions of President Donald Trump’s “weaponization of the Department of Justice” argument.
In the latest attempt, New York Mayor Eric Adams filed a new motion on Wednesday to dismiss the fraud and corruption charges against him by alleging “prosecutorial misconduct.”
“Astonishingly, the former interim U.S. Attorney’s plan amounted to a cover up of her prior boss’s weaponization of the justice system to further a baseless prosecution and save face now that the house of cards has predictably crumbled,” Adams’ legal team wrote in a motion about a leaked letter from the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York to the new attorney general, Pam Bondi.