Mayor Adams in ‘Wonderland’

It’s a moment to keep an eye out for constitutional due process, as the record of federal corruption cases against New York pols is riddled with guilty verdicts overturned on appeal.

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Mayor Adams at City Hall, in front of a painting of Alexander Hamilton, on June 11, 2024 at New York City. Adam Gray/Getty Images

The federal indictment of Mayor Adams that has reportedly been handed up in New York marks a sad day for the city. The news is being met with calls for Hizzoner to resign. This began even before news of the indictment hit, with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the head of the line. How did the Queen of Hearts put it to Alice? “Sentence first — verdict afterwards.” Eleven months into the investigation and New Yorkers still don’t yet know what’s in the indictment.

So count our view as reserved — a view we first expressed in these columns back when the Feds were investigating Senator Joseph Bruno and the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver. “Are we the only paper that is not entirely comfortable,” the Sun asked in 2015, when Silver was being arrested “on charges handed up by the federal government?” It prompted another poser: “On what authority is America reaching into the legislature of New York State?”

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