""I have never heard of a situation where every single grand juror rejected an indictment," former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote. "Every single one." The Trump administration has made a habit of failing to secure indictments - a process so infamously easy that everyone jokes about how the government could indict a ham sandwich - but it's still unheard of to fail to persuade even one grand juror to indict. Achievement unlocked!"
"NBC reports that the administration not only flubbed its attempt to indict the six Democratic lawmakers who starred in a video reminding military personnel that the law requires them to reject unlawful orders, but it could not find a single grand juror willing to bite. The case against the lawmakers was, of course, frivolous. The Uniform Code of Military Justice does, in fact, impose a duty on the military to disobey illegal orders, rendering any charge against the legislators an uphill battle."
Every grand juror rejected the indictment attempt against six Democratic lawmakers. The lawmakers had appeared in a video reminding military personnel that the law requires disobeying unlawful orders. The prosecution's case faced legal hurdles because the Uniform Code of Military Justice imposes a duty on service members to disobey illegal orders. Career prosecutors in the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office avoided the case amid broader attrition and resistance to bringing politically motivated charges. Former Fox host Jeanine Pirro recruited former Westchester County assistant district attorneys, including Steven Vandervelden and Carlton Davis, to pursue the matter. Vandervelden continued running a dance photography studio while handling the case.
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