Mass resignations among leading federal prosecutors are rare, but that's what happened in the DOJ's handling of the New York ...

Danielle Sassoon and her colleagues opposed dropping corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

Other legal experts have drawn comparisons to past instances of executive overreach, such as the firing of FBI Director James Comey during Trump's first term ...

The move was preceded by wave of resignations of prosecutors, each refusing to sign the motion and some criticizing the Justice Department order to do so in scathing terms.

The DOJ had ordered the case against Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped following weeks of his cozying up to Trump.

As numerous DOJ lawyers resigned in protest, the department filed a motion seeking to abandon the Adams case late Friday.

State Sen. Mike Gianaris said "Eric Adams is clearly compromised and can no longer be considered the legitimate leader of our ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigned Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order to ...

Danielle Sassoon can’t be dismissed as some kind of liberal deep-stater. Her résumé suggests anything but: registered Republican; participant in the Federalist Society; former law clerk to two ...

The decision by Justice to dismiss the case had nothing to do with the facts or the law, but was based wholly on political ...