The Thursday Night Massacre
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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OA1126 - Law'd Awful Boves
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled LAM for readings and commentary on the documents at the heart of what has quickly become one of the most shocking events in the 155-year history of the U.S. Department of Justice: the openly corrupt dismissal of all charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams in exchange for his cooperation with Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Gavel Gavel contributor Liz Skeen joins to share her perspective as both a New York City lawyer and resident as we work through the dueling letters which have been publicly released so far from former US Attorney for SDNY Danielle Sassoon, Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove, and former Assistant US Attorney Hagan Scotten together with DOJ’s motion to dismiss.
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Former U.S. Attorney for SDNY Danielle Sassoon’s letter offering her resignation if DOJ continues to move forward with filing a motion to dismiss the federal criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (2/12/25)
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Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s response to Danielle Sassoon’s letter (2/13/25)
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Former Assistant US Attorney Hagan Scotten’s letter of resignation (2/14/25)
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DOJ’s Rule 48(a) motion seeking to dismiss all pending charges against Eric Adams (2/14/25)
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| 0:00.0 | You must never ever give up or give in. |
| 0:03.1 | You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize. |
| 0:07.5 | That is your calling. |
| 0:08.9 | That is your mission. |
| 0:10.0 | That is your moral obligation. |
| 0:12.0 | That is your mandate. |
| 0:13.4 | Get out there and do it. |
| 0:15.0 | Get in the way. |
| 0:26.6 | Change. Change happens because people care. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:36.6 | I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:44.1 | I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry, |
| 0:47.9 | no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong. |
| 0:55.0 | The fight for our country is always worth it. |
| 1:04.7 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1126. Just coming in here at the intro to say we had a lot of stuff, we actually have like two episodes that have been preempted |
| 1:09.8 | because this Thursday night massacre that happened. It was so egregious. It's such an insult to the rule of law. And it's so important. And it's such a big scandal that we had Liz on kind of in the slot we were going to do for a lot awful movies. That recording fell through. So we had like, that was like the allotted time we had. |
| 1:27.8 | So we did a nice long recording on the Thursday Night Massacre. I was going to make it the |
| 1:32.5 | lot awful movies. But I also think there's just too important to keep behind the paywall. So |
| 1:36.9 | calling an audible there and instead going to release this monster in the next two episodes, |
| 1:42.1 | because it's a full two episodes worth. But I still want |
| 1:45.0 | to give patrons a benefit. So if you go to patreon.com slash law, you can get the whole thing right away. |
| 1:49.7 | Otherwise, you got to wait a little bit for the part two. I figure that's the least I can do for patrons. |
| 1:54.3 | But there's just one of those things. Like, it's too important to keep behind a paywall. And |
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