Chris Hayes on why he is reassured by the Biden Department of Justice bringing corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams—especially in contrast to the Trump Era legacy of corruption of justice.
This is an adapted excerpt from the Sept. 26 episode of “All In with Chris Hayes.” On the face of it, this week has not been a great week for New York City. Eric Adams has become the city's first sitting mayor to be criminally indicted. But the charges are also, in a strange way, reassuring. They show we have a functioning federal government that still holds the rule of law to be a bedrock, sacrosanct thing — particularly in the Department of Justice.
That pressure culminated in his attempted coup after the 2020 election, when Trump considered naming Jeffrey Clark, a mid-level DOJ lawyer, as attorney general so Clark could use the department’s good name to send out a letter saying the election was rigged and get state legislators to overturn the election. Now, compare that to the Biden DOJ under Attorney General Merrick Garland. A Department of Justice that has bent over backward to be independent of the White House.
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