Invoking Scalia in the Sovereign District
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove instructed Danielle Sassoon, the Acting U.S. Attorney for SDNY, to dismiss the indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice. I wrote about that instruction here.
Sassoon refused, and resigned. Bove accepted her resignation. There is much to say about these letters. Here, I will focus on one small part.
Sassoon stresses that she clerked for Justice Scalia:
I am also guided by the values that have defined my over ten years of public service. You and I have yet to meet, let alone discuss this case. But as you may know, I clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Fourth Circuit, and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Both men instilled in me a sense of duty to contribute to the public good and uphold the rule of law, and a commitment to reasoned and thorough analysis. I have always considered it my obligation to pursue justice impartially, without favor to the wealthy or those who occupy important public office, or harsher treatment for the less powerful.
Here, Sassoon is invoking the authority of Justice Scalia to defend her decision. As a general matter, I find it somewhat obnoxious how people define the
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