New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in the fight of his political life, as a judge set a hearing to weigh the Justice Department’s dropping of a federal corruption case against him and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul met with the state’s Democrat leaders to determine his fate.

Under pressure to examine the federal government’s reasons for seeking to dismiss the case, Judge Dale E. Ho on Tuesday scheduled a hearing for 2 p.m. Wednesday in Manhattan federal court.

The New York Times reported that three former U.S. attorneys from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut filed a brief on Monday night, asking Ho to conduct an extensive inquiry to determine if the government’s move to drop the prosecution was in the public interest or a pretext to secure Adams’ cooperation with the Trump administration’s migrant deportation operation.

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