Cuomo held up Citi Field mass vaccine site amid beef with de Blasio The account, shared by nine people involved in New York’s pandemic response, conflicts with the image Cuomo cultivated as a steady leader in a time of tumult.

"Cuomo’s team even threatened to have City Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi arrested over his interpretation of which first responders were eligible for early vaccines and how those vaccines would be administered"

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Clayton has a decidedly un-Trumpy element of his resume: At the SEC, he championed DEI measures.

And he is longtime close friends with one of Trump's nemeses, Cy Vance, who called Clayton "a rare bird in the legal community."

"He will hold his line."

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He’s never been a prosecutor. He’s about to lead the top prosecutorial office in the country. Will Jay Clayton succumb to pressure from Trump’s DOJ, or will he defend his future office’s maverick streak?

Clayton has begun soliciting possible deputies, eyeing a former SDNY public corruption prosecutor, James McDonald, to be deputy U.S. attorney. McDonald is a fellow S&C partner and, as of Jan., one of Trump's lawyers. Ppl say he's unlikely to take the job.

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He’s never been a prosecutor. He’s about to lead the top prosecutorial office in the country. Will Jay Clayton succumb to pressure from Trump’s DOJ, or will he defend his future office’s maverick streak?

NEW: Word has spread within SDNY that before Danielle Sassoon resigned, Jay Clayton privately advised her to follow the order from Main Justice to drop the Eric Adams case, per four ppl familiar
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Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.

According to Suri’s petition for release, he was put in deportation proceedings under the same rarely used provision of immigration law that the government has invoked to try to deport Mahmoud Khalil www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

NEW: While Emil Bove was at SDNY, leaders of the office conducted an internal inquiry into his management of the terrorism unit. They initially concluded that he should be demoted from his position as co-chief, but never followed through with the demotion. t.co/R09L2XGqCv

Trump hires new lawyers to appeal his hush money conviction The lawyers will replace Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who represented Trump during the trial last spring.

The most prominent member of Trump’s new legal team is Robert Giuffra, the firm’s co-chair. Also working on the case will be 4 other S&C attorneys, all of whom are former Supreme Court clerks: James McDonald, Morgan Ratner, John Wall and Matthew Schwartz. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

NEW: President Donald Trump has hired the elite white-shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell to appeal his criminal conviction in the Manhattan hush money case, according to two people familiar with the matter. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Used my time waiting for Rudy Giuliani to show up for his trial at SDNY to join this platform. Hi!