Manhattan federal Judge Dale Ho on Tuesday ordered dipshit Mayor Eric Adams and the Trump Regime DOJ to explain what the hell’s going on, setting a status conference for 2 PM Wednesday.

“ORDER as to Eric Adams: The motion to dismiss states that ‘Defendant Eric Adams has consented in writing to this motion,’ but no such document has been provided to the Court. Defendant is therefore ORDERED to file his ‘consent in writing’ on the docket by 5:00 pm ET today. The parties are further ORDERED to appear before the Court for a conference on February 19, 2025, at 2:00 pm in Courtroom 318 of the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY. The parties shall be prepared to address, inter alia, the reasons for the Government’s motion, the scope and effect of Mayor Adams’s ‘consent in writing,’ ECF No. 122 at 1, and the procedure for resolution of the motion. SO ORDERED,” wrote Ho, evidently not a small amount pissed over the fuckery afoot.

In related news, hitting the docket on Tuesday is the February 3rd letter from Adams’s lawyers to scumbag Trump DOJ enforcer Emil Bove in which they first proposed the quid pro quo. “There is a reason that the Justice Department does not prosecute sitting presidents, and while a mayor is not a president, Mayor Adams is nonetheless the leader of this country’s largest city and needs to be an important partner to the President and his administration. An honest balancing of these concerns against the unsupported prosecution theories in this case militates strongly in favor of dismissal. A Justice Department driven purely by the rule of law never would have authorized this prosecution in the first place,” dishonest cocksucker defense counsel Alex Spiro wrote to Bove.

More related news: Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman on Monday sent an unsolicited letter to Judge Ho imploring him to reject the dismissal bid and instead appoint a special prosecutor to continue the case against Adams, citing some 1987 Louis Vuitton counterfeit case as precedent.