"And what you're seeing now is absolutely the destruction of the credibility of the Justice Department with our judicial system. Judges are not giving the benefit of the doubt anymore to assistant U.S. attorneys when they come into court. And worse yet with the public. And so, the damage that gets done here by this just pure vendetta prosecution is long term. And it's going to be very, very difficult to fix over the course of the next decade."
"In seven years that I was U.S. attorney in New Jersey, we were the third most productive district out of 93 in the country during those seven years, Christie said. So we brought a lot of cases. We never once not once in seven years were no bill by a grand jury. Not once. He added, This false idea that grand juries, you can indict a ham sandwich, it is not true."
The DOJ sought to indict six congressional Democrats over a video urging troops to refuse illegal orders, but grand juries did not return indictments. A high-performing U.S. attorney's office reported never having a 'no bill' outcome over seven years, challenging the notion that grand juries will indict indiscriminately. The 'ham sandwich' indictment myth is declared false as recent grand juries have declined politically charged cases. The inability to secure indictments is said to damage judicial confidence, reduce deference to assistant U.S. attorneys in court, erode public trust, and create long-term harm to the Justice Department's credibility.
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