Joyce Vance: Eric Adams & The Quid Pro Quo That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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John is joined by Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, to discuss the Eric Adams case. Joyce explains why the decision by Donald Trump’s Justice Department to dismiss the corruption charges against New York’s mayor was so unusual, unwarranted, and improper; why the extraordinary fallout from that decision—resignations by all of the SDNY lawyers central to bringing the charges; an open letter by more than 900 former federal prosecutors sounding the alarm over the DOJ’s effort to drop them; the unwillingness of the presiding judge to rubber stamp that effort—reflects its wider and more ominous implications for the rule of law in the Trump 2.0 era; and where the case might go from here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.0	Aloha, namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitik with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey Joint,
1:12.0	featuring lively, in-depth conversations with the people who roam the corridors of power and influence in America,
1:17.5	leaving the warp and wharf and wharf of our politics and culture.
1:21.2	On Friday's episode of the pod, the first installment of a special Impolitic Legal Eagle double header, we were joined by Prit Bharara
1:30.0	for a discussion of the myriad battles being fought in courtrooms around the country over
1:34.4	what many see as Donald Trump's assault on the existing constitutional order and the rule
1:38.5	of law itself. Not surprisingly, Prit was a superb guide for that particular Tour de Horizon.
1:46.0	He gave us a sweeping and thorough view with one notable exception.
1:51.0	Because partners from Preet's law firm have represented Eric Adams in the federal criminal case
1:56.0	that has blown up into something much larger and more consequential,
2:00.0	as Donald Trump's DOJ has sought to
2:02.0	drop the public corruption charges its own career prosecutors leveled last September at New York's
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