During his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing to become the No. 2 official at the Justice Departmentsamsungjogo, Todd Blanche suggested that he had no direct knowledge of the decision to abandon a criminal corruption case against the mayor of New York City.

But in a draft letter unsealed on Tuesday, the interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan wrote that a top department official, Emil Bove III, had suggested otherwise before ordering her to seek the case’s dismissal.

The U.S. attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, wrote that when she suggested that department officials await Mr. Blanche’s Senate confirmation so he could play a role in the decision, Mr. Bove informed her that Mr. Blanche was on the “same page,” and that there was “no need to wait.” The draft was written by Ms. Sassoon to Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this year, as Ms. Sassoon fought for the case’s survival.

The draft letter was among a cache of communications, including emails and texts, submitted under seal to a judge, Dale E. Ho, by Mr. Bove and Mr. Blanche,66br after Mr. Blanche’s confirmation. The communications were attached to a motion supporting their argument for dismissal of the corruption indictment against the mayor, Eric Adams. Judge Ho has yet to rule.

Read the Justice Department’s filing in the Adams case.

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The draft sheds additional light on the circumstances surrounding the explosive decision by top officials in the Justice Department to halt the prosecution of Mr. Adams. The move set off a political crisis in New York City, where the mayor immediately faced questions about his indebtedness to the president. Mr. Trump’s Justice Department has said it sought the dismissal in part so that Mr. Adams could aid the administration’s deportation agenda in the city.

The amendment, Proposition 139, would establish a fundamental right to abortion and prohibit the state from restricting or banning abortion before viability — the point at which a fetus can survive outside the uterus, generally around 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Last month, Chief Judge Albert Diaz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., writing for six judges, said that approach had created “a labyrinth for lower courts, including our own, with only the one-dimensional history-and-tradition test as a compass.”

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