Thursday Night Massacre: Prosecutor Resigns Over Order To Drop Adams Case

 At least six prosecutors, including the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, have stepped down over the DOJ order.

The Trump-appointed top federal prosecutor in New York and two senior federal prosecutors in Washington have resigned after refusing to follow a DoJ order to drop the corruption charges against NYC mayor Eric Adams. Via NBC News:

The resignations amount to a stunning public rebuke of the Trump administration's new Justice Department leadership in one of the country's most high-profile criminal cases.

The departures come after Emil Bove, the acting U.S. deputy attorney general, issued a memo Monday ordering federal prosecutors in New York to drop the case against Adams arguing, in part, that it hampered his ability to tackle “illegal immigration and violent crime."

Danielle R. Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in a brief statement to colleagues on Thursday, the senior official said.

A seventh prosecutor Hagen Scotten resigned this morning. 

Scotten wrote a resignation letter to acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove in which he accuses the official of abandoning his legal ethics to do the bidding of President Donald Trump.