"On Tuesday, prosecutors with the U.S. attorney's office in the District of Columbia, led by Jeanine Pirro, sought and failed to indict six Democratic lawmakers-four House members and two senators-who recorded a social media video last year in which they reminded service members of their obligation to refuse illegal orders. What were the exact charges? Who knows. Whatever they were, the grand jury in D.C. didn't just reject them as a body."
"Why would Pirro and Hegseth subject themselves to such total humiliation and stark legal rebuke? Don't they realize that a neutral observer would consider them historically bad at their jobs? Their audience of one, though, is not a neutral observer. The November video that those six Democrats released incensed Donald Trump, who posted on social media at the time that it was "SEDITIOUS B"
Topics include Jeffrey Epstein, the Kennedys, bridge scandals involving new bridges and rival bridge owners, Democratic mega-gerrymanders, and tariff votes. The central theme is that some Trump administration appointees prioritize pleasing the president over neutral execution of their duties, sometimes pursuing weak or politically driven actions. Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in D.C., led by Jeanine Pirro, sought and failed to indict six Democratic lawmakers who recorded a video reminding service members to refuse illegal orders; the grand jury rejected the charges unanimously. A judge found Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's attempt to punish Sen. Mark Kelly had trampled Kelly's First Amendment freedoms. Those actions followed public anger from Donald Trump, who labeled the video "SEDITIOUS B
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