"The New York Times published on Wednesday new details about Pirro's failed attempt to indict multiple Democratic lawmakers who earned President Donald Trump's ire with a video urging military members to not follow illegal orders. Department of Justice prosecutors reportedly failed to secure an indictment of the lawmakers with a grand jury rejecting the idea they had done anything illegal."
"The Times report reads: For reasons that remain unclear, Jeanine Pirro, a longtime ally of Mr. Trump, abruptly instructed her team to seek an indictment of the lawmakers, all of whom had served in the armed forces or the intelligence community. Her prosecutors then faced a decision that many in the department under Mr. Trump have confronted: Comply or resist. They chose the first."
Jeanine Pirro instructed prosecutors to seek indictments of six Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a video urging military members not to follow illegal orders. Department of Justice prosecutors failed to secure an indictment after a grand jury rejected that the lawmakers had committed illegal acts. The lawmakers, all former military or intelligence personnel, warned that threats to the Constitution come from within the country as well as abroad. The lawmakers named include Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly and Reps. Jason Crow, Maggie Goodlander, Chrissy Houlahan, and Chris Deluzio. Prosecutors contacted the lawmakers' lawyers and described the conversations as genial, and Pirro has set the case aside but could revisit it.
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