Two days after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she would seek to impose new guardrails on Mayor Eric Adams’ authority rather than use her executive power to remove him “at this time,” a few hundred New Yorkers rallied and marched on Feb.

Experts say it’s far from clear how would play out. The closest it’s come to happening was nearly a century ago when Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a trial against Mayor Jimmy Walker, who subsequently resigned and moved to Europe to avoid criminal prosecution.