New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, a moderate Democrat from southeast Queens, is known for her even temperament, which she uses to muscle through budget and policy fights with the mayor.

The head of New York's city council on Monday called for the resignation of Mayor Eric Adams, days after the US Justice Department moved to dismiss a corruption case against him. Several members of the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section in Washington,

On Friday, after a week of recriminations and resignations, Bove and a pair of Justice Department officials from Washington stepped in and filed paperwork asking Manhattan federal Judge Dale E. Ho to dismiss the case. Ho has yet to take action on the request.