A federal judge in Manhattan is refusing to grant the request of the Department of Justice and dismiss their case against Eric Adams.

Instead, the judge delayed the case and will appoint an outside lawyer to prosecute the case.

Here’s more from Reuters:

A New York judge on Friday said he would not immediately dismiss Eric Adams’ corruption case, but ordered the Democratic New York City mayor’s trial delayed indefinitely after the Justice Department asked him to dismiss charges.

In a written ruling, U.S. District Judge Dale Ho in Manhattan said he would appoint an outside lawyer, Paul Clement of the law firm Clement & Murphy PLLC, to present arguments against the prosecutors’ bid to dismiss to help him make a decision.

Justice Department officials in Washington asked Ho to dismiss the charges against Adams on February 14.

The Trump Justice Department argued that dismissal is needed so Adams can focus on helping Trump crack down on illegal immigration. The controversy has sparked a political crisis in the most populous U.S. city. Senior Democrats have said that dismissing the charges makes Adams beholden to Trump’s administration.

Adams, 64, was charged last September with taking bribes and campaign donations from Turkish nationals seeking to influence him. Adams, running for re-election this year, has pleaded not guilty.

I’ll be honest with you. If the DOJ really argued that they are dismissing the case so that Adams can focus on aiding President Trump’s mass deportations, that sounds like a terrible argument to me. I’d read that before and didn’t believe it was real. But I guess it is – and I say that with the caveat that this is the coming from a garbage media outlet.

I would have thought their argument would have been on the merits of the case. So, despite this being a Joe Biden appointed judge, I kinda can’t blame him for refusing to dismiss it on these grounds.