Posted on 09/25/2024 8:41:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
The indictment of Mayor Eric Adams prompted calls for his resignation Wednesday evening, but there is no legal requirement that he leave office.
If he does resign before his term ends, the city’s public advocate, Jumaane Williams, would become acting mayor and a special election would be scheduled.
A special election would most likely draw a number of candidates, at least some of whom have already declared that they will run against Mr. Adams in next year’s Democratic primary. Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who is seeking a political comeback, could also join the field.
Mr. Adams, in a videotaped speech posted online late Wednesday, proclaimed his innocence, vowed to fight any charges against him and made it clear he did not plan to resign.
There is another way Mr. Adams could leave office: The New York City Charter gives Gov. Kathy Hochul the power to remove him. But the process would be complicated.
Under the charter, Ms. Hochul, who had not commented on the indictment as of late Wednesday, could suspend Mr. Adams for up to 30 days and then remove him “after service upon him of a copy of the charges and an opportunity to be heard in his defense.”
That is where New Yorkers would be entering uncharted territory. A governor has not exercised such powers in recent memory. The closest precedent occurred in 1931, when Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt held 14 days of hearings into the misconduct of Mayor Jimmy Walker, who eventually resigned in 1932 before going to Europe.
Roosevelt’s hearings took place in the Statehouse’s Red Room. As he prepared to assume the presidency in 1933, he filed several memorandums explaining the hearings with the state attorney general and defending his power to remove Mr. Walker.
Roosevelt, The New York Times wrote at the time, thought the memos were “of some importance because the Walker case in the future would be referred to in other cases involving the power of removal of certain public officials by the governor and because, unlike cases at law, no opportunity exists for including a digest of any such extensive cases in any law report.”
It is unclear how Ms. Hochul would pursue Mr. Adams’s removal, or if she would try.
“When the Constitution, statutes and City Charter are read together, the governor has broad latitude in deciding what actions or failures to act would justify removing a mayor from office,” said James M. McGuire, a former counsel to Gov. George Pataki now in private practice. Mr. McGuire noted that some specific charges are required, but the courts have never determined how specific they must be, enabling governors “to use the removal power as a club to force resignations.”
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Not mandatory, but possible, and has been done many times............
Likely DOJ law fare.
Biden attended an event with the mayor tonight.
Also there was the WH chef who posed for a photo with the golf course assassin.
Menendez convicted in New Jersey. Adams indicted in New York. Both are facing hard prison time. If Biden does not pardon them, both know the details of corruption and voting fraud schemes in NJ and NY. Many Democrats in NJ and NY are not sleeping well. It will be especially bad if Trump is elected and a Trump appointee is Attorney General. These guys will sell out anyone to avoid prison.
Commie Harris is hard on Black men..
The first rule of fight club is never talk about fight club. These guys aren’t going to give up the con. Their lives would not be worth a plug nickel if they did.
I’m more concerned about the international implications:
° Would this bring down Erdrogen?
° Could this lead to the expulsion of Turkey from NATO?
and most importantly:
° Might this lead to the liberation of Hagia Sophia?
Sometimes vice versa.
Ask Willie.
I hope so.
All too often.
I’m going to read more about it. Remember, Eric Adams was the more-to-the-right candidate who, as an ex-cop, ran on the law and order platform, and against a uber-progressive candidate. There may be reasons they are going after him.
But they are from opposite end of the Democrat Party. Biden may pardon Menendez, but I don’t think there is a chance he would pardon Adams.
I am surprised so many Freepers assume all indictments in NYC are valid.
Do you have proof of that? I couldn’t find a single article on it.
I am surprised so many Freepers assume all indictments in NYC are valid.
The left will replace him with someone worse.
That’s the ONLY reason they ever throw a corrupt, immoral democrat under the bus.
They’re a virtue signaling sacrifice.
I just read “This is who becomes New York Mayor if Eric Adams resigns - Jumaane Williams”.
Looked him up on Wikipedia:
“Jumaane Williams
A member of the Democratic Party and a self-described democratic socialist”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumaane_Williams
And he’s also an activist.
Makes me wonder if the plan was to install Williams.
Timing of this is important.... deep state sending a message, toe the line or be destroyed
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