Grand Juries in Blue Cities Increasingly Refuse To Indict Activists Charged By Trump Admin
“grand juries have repeatedly refused in recent days to indict their fellow residents who became entangled in either the president’s immigration crackdown or his more recent show of force.”
Funny how that works, huh? The political makeup of D.C. voters probably has nothing to do with it.
The New York Times reports:
Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Wave of Charges Under Trump’s Crackdown
In the three weeks since President Trump flooded the streets of Washington with hundreds of troops and federal agents, there have been only a few scattered protests and scarcely a word from Congress, which has quietly gone along with the deployment.
But one show of resistance has come from an extraordinary source: federal grand jurors.
In what could be read as a citizens’ revolt, ordinary people serving on grand juries have repeatedly refused in recent days to indict their fellow residents who became entangled in either the president’s immigration crackdown or his more recent show of force. It has happened in at least seven cases — including three times for the same defendant.
Given the secretive nature of grand juries, it is all but impossible to know precisely why this has been happening, but the persistent rejections suggest that grand jurors may have had enough of prosecutors seeking harsh charges in a highly politicized environment.
Courthouse wits have long quoted Judge Sol Wachtler, the former New York jurist who said that prosecutors are in such complete control of grand juries that they could get them to indict a ham sandwich. But that old saw did not hold true in the rebellion in Federal District Court in Washington, where grand jurors seem to have taken a stand in defense of their community.
“First of all, it is exceedingly rare for any grand jury to reject a proposed indictment because ordinarily prosecutors use discretion in only bringing cases that are strong and advance the interests of justice,” said Barbara L. McQuade, a former U.S. attorney in Detroit who teaches at the University of Michigan Law School. “I have seen this maybe once or twice in my career of 20 years, but this is something different.”
“My guess,” Ms. McQuade went on, “is that these grand jurors are seeing prosecutorial overreach and they don’t want to be part of it.”
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because its a war we are in and the left takes no prisoners
Stop trying to save blue cities from themselves. Let them wallow in problems of their own making. The same goes for blue states.
“but the persistent rejections suggest that grand jurors may have had enough of prosecutors seeking harsh charges in a highly politicized environment.”
Damn convenient they didn’t get that religion before January 6.
‘overreach’ is the wrong word. The Washingtonians are engaged in grand jury nullification.
“‘My guess,’ Ms. McQuade went on, ‘is that these grand jurors are seeing prosecutorial overreach and they don’t want to be part of it.'”
Yes, because whenever the left does something it’s for honorable, just and righteous reasons.
Couldn’t possibly just be because the vast majority of the DC public is in lockstep with leftist propaganda and are playing politics with the judicial system…as usual.
“Yes, there is sufficient evidence to charge the defendant with assaulting a Police Officer, but it was for a cause we agree with so we won’t indict them.”
Jury nullification is only OK when the left does it…or something.