Attorney General Bondi’s chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, took to X in the hours before a federal court hearing in New York for a judge to mull over the recent motion to dismiss criminal charges against Mayor Adams, succinctly laying out their case for having the whole matter thrown out. 

Mr. Mizelle’s theory closely mirrored the case laid out by Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove during Wednesday’s hearing. Mr. Bove told Judge Dale Ho that the DOJ’s request to dismiss the case was “a standard exercise of prosecutorial discretion.”