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silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

D.C. grand jury declines to indict another defendant amid Trump's crime crackdown

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D.C. grand jury declines to indict another defendant amid Trump's crime crackdown

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silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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Grand juries have declined to indict at least six times in recent weeks during President Donald Trump's federal policing effort in Washington.
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    How long until DC grand juries are “discovered” to be full of criminals and that jurors need to be replaced by members of the National Guard

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      Party members only

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        Wealthy people only.

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      They’ll just do away with juries entirely.

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        Or do what they did in Hong Kong: ship them to another part of the country to stand trial. It’s currently illegal, but probably less illegal than removing juries. They’ll do it because they can’t secure the local jails or something

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        Or try to rig the system so that only MAGAts are allowed to be selected for grand juries

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      They will abduct anyone they dislike to torture prisons in Venezuela and Uganda.

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