A judge scrutinized the Justice Department‘s controversial decision to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams during a hearing on Wednesday and did not issue any rulings from the bench, further prolonging the case’s drawn-out end.

Judge Dale Ho, a Biden appointee, held the hearing to address what he said in court was a “somewhat unusual situation” in which the DOJ attempted to end a criminal case against a prominent public official but was met with significant backlash from its own prosecutors.