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President Donald Trump has used the power of his office in ways critics and experts say inject politics into the criminal justice system.

In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon tried to fire the Department of Justice prosecutor leading an investigation into the president’s involvement in wiretapping the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters.

Trump's appointees are wielding federal power in a manner that appears every bit as corrupt as what he complained about on the campaign trail.

A former U.S. solicitor general who was brought in to help a federal judge decide whether to accept a Justice Department request to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is set to submit written arguments

That's the powerful argument that Mayor Adams's lawyers are making, citing (among other grounds) the leaking of a resignation letter containing "the wildly inflammatory and false accusation that Mayor Adams and his counsel had, in essence, offered a quid to the Department of Justice in exchange for the quo of…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is asking a federal judge to toss out the corruption case against him, alleging prosecutorial misconduct, even as the Justice Department seeks dismissal of the charges on the Democrat's behalf

New York governor was considering using her authority to have the mayor removed from office

There have been a lot of posts recently about the Department of Justice's treatment of the Eric Adams prosecution. I… The post Prof. Ryan Snyder on the Eric Adams Case appeared first on Reason.com.

Dismissal of case against Eric Adams reflects new directive for prosecutors to toe line on White House’s policies