When the Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors on Monday to drop the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, he hoped that it would save his political career and allow him to better focus on governing the nation’s largest city.

Instead, the mayor is in even more peril, his political future is still in question and New Yorkers’ trust in him is precipitously waning.

In just the last 48 hours, the top Democrat in the House, nearly every major member of the city’s elected leadership, civic leaders, pastors and even staunch mayoral allies have credibly argued that he let President Trump gain effective sway over the most important City Hall in America.

Calls for his resignation have escalated. Pressure is mounting on Gov. Kathy Hochul to use her power to remove the mayor.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, citing Mr. Trump’s “leverage over Adams,” said that if the mayor “won’t resign, he must be removed.” Representative Nydia Velázquez said Mr. Adams must step down because the city could not be “led by someone under Trump’s thumb and willing to sell out New Yorkers.”

The calls also came from Democrats at the State Capitol, including Ms. Hochul’s lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, and the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Michael Gianaris, and from the mayor’s challengers in the June primary election.

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