gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days agoGov. Hochul says she won't remove NYC Mayor Adams from officegothamist.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down11file-text
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minus-square𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-22 days agoIf you were being investigated by the FBI for corruption and openly pulled a quid pro quo with a political figure, would you still have a job?
minus-squareRowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down10·2 days agoYes, because in absence of a trial it isn’t legal or appropriate.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoThe courts don’t remove people from office. That’s a political process.
minus-squareRowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 hours agoand that process requires the mayor to be presented charges that he gets to defend himself against. That’s a trial
If you were being investigated by the FBI for corruption and openly pulled a quid pro quo with a political figure, would you still have a job?
Yes, because in absence of a trial it isn’t legal or appropriate.
The courts don’t remove people from office. That’s a political process.
and that process requires the mayor to be presented charges that he gets to defend himself against. That’s a trial