It’s getting to the point where staying in the Trump 2.0 administration is incompatible with legal ethics:
Three federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams—and were subsequently placed on administrative leave—announced their resignation on Tuesday, accusing Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of attempting to compel them to “confess wrongdoing” in the case. Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed the charges against Adams following a request by Justice Department officials that the case be dropped. The prosecutors—Derek Wikstrom, Celia Cohen, and Andrew Rohrbach—opposed dropping the charges and were put on leave “ostensibly to review our … handling of the Adams case,” they wrote in a letter, but were later told that they “must express regret and admit some wrongdoing” to be reinstated. “We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none,” they added.