Greand Juries are just ordinary people listening to Govt. Lawyers presenting criminal cases for indictments….
In the nation’s capital?
Those ordinary people are NOT going along with Trump efforts to punish people he’s after to hurt…
They join numerous Federal Judges and Courts in efforts against Trump & Co.across the country…
Again…
The system of ‘Democracy’ IS STILL fighting back against a man, and his crew, who think he’s King…
There was a time not too long ago when a federal prosecutor could spend a long career in the courtroom and never once fail to get a grand jury to sign off on an indictment.
But that time is over, especially in President Trump’s Washington.
In the past two weeks alone, prosecutors there have failed to secure indictments in at least three cases — an extraordinary acceleration of the troubles that the Justice Department, and the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington in particular, has had with grand juries for nearly two years.
The latest failure came on Friday, when prosecutors were unable, for the second time in recent days, to obtain an indictment against someone the authorities claimed had voted in two jurisdictions in the 2024 election, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
The grand jury rejections have typically come in cases based on questionable evidence that prosecutors have nonetheless sought to jam through the courts, often because they involve public figures whom Mr. Trump has perceived to be his enemies. But they have also touched on some of the president’s other obsessions, including his contentious immigration crackdown and his efforts to prove that widespread voter fraud exists.
Things have gotten bad enough that a federal magistrate judge who once worked as a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office publicly called out the Justice Department’s failures last week. It was “self-evident,” he said, that his former colleagues had become so petrified of grand jurors in Washington that they had started using unorthodox methods to get around them in an effort to bring charges.
The problems for prosecutors have increasingly extended beyond grand juries, as U.S. attorney’s offices in Washington and elsewhere have faced a forceful pushback from the federal bench.
Judges have thrown out cases and cut short other matters in the early stages of investigation, at times, accusing prosecutors of abusing the criminal justice system.
“It’s important to understand how unusual all of this is,” said Greg Rosen, a former prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office. “By their very nature, grand juries hear only the government’s side. And when they keep saying no, and judges across the spectrum start saying it on the record, the problem isn’t the grand jury.”….
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Federal prosecutors across the country — particularly in major cities like Chicago and Los Angeles — have confronted similar problems with grand jurors. In those cities, grand juries have rejected cases against individuals accused of assaulting federal agents working on immigration matters for the Trump administration. And prosecutors in Virginia have also faltered when seeking indictments — including twice in the same week against Letitia James, the New York State attorney general who oversaw a civil fraud case against Mr. Trump….
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