Democratic politicians to hold shadow hearing on Justice Dept. dropping corruption charges against Eric Adams.

Politico – Democrats plan ‘shadow hearing’ to question lawyers pressured by Trump administration It’s one of few tools available to the minority party to fight the new president’s alleged weaponization of the Justice Department. Hailey Fuchs 04/02/2025, 6:01pm ET Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) are orchestrating a so-called shadow hearing to question former Justice Department official Ryan Crosswell, an attorney who resigned after the department moved to drop corruption charges against Adams.

I’m all for shadow government — bring it all over this shitshow. If you have Dem elected representatives at the federal level, I say write them and ask for more of this. (I’m writing to John Fetterman, so back me up here.)

We need a shadow government to scrutinize everything that happens at HHS. Every policy decision and everything that comes out of that entire HHS department, and all the agencies within, needs to be scrutinized. Chloe Humbert Mar 17, 2025