Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove instructed Danielle Sassoon, the Acting U.S. Attorney for SDNY, to dismiss the indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice. I wrote about that instruction here.
Sassoon refused, and resigned. Bove accepted her resignation. There is much to say about these letters. Here, I will focus on one small part.
Sassoon stresses that she clerked for Justice Scalia:
