Democrats want to turn the tables on Pirro following failed indictment effort
Former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, now the top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital. authorized prosecutors We’re going to go to a grand jury this week and try to indict Democratic members of Congress. Members of parliament had prepared a video to remind soldiers months ago. disobeying illegal ordersand that’s why the U.S. attorney’s office wanted them charged with seditious conspiracy.
This didn’t go so well: Ordinary citizens on the grand jury rejected this ridiculous gambit on Tuesday.
It was the latest in a series of embarrassments for Pirro and Donald Trump’s unraveling Justice Department, but “no invoice” errorunder the supervision of prosecutors unfortunate backgroundsHe didn’t close the book on the fiasco.
On the contrary, some of the targets of this ridiculous gambit seem eager to turn the tables on their pursuers. Politico reported:
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Wednesday demanded that U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro preserve all evidence related to her failed attempt to bring criminal charges against him and five other Democratic lawmakers. […]
In a letter sent to Pirro’s office Wednesday, Crow’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, called the effort to charge Crow and other Democrats involved in the video a “breathtaking and unprecedented level of prosecutorial overreach and abuse of power.”
A week ago, after Senator Elissa Slotkin told the Justice Department she would not cooperate with the baseless investigation, the Michigan Democrat’s lawyers demanded: Pirro protects all documents It’s about the “pending lawsuit” issue.
Time will tell what comes of this, but it’s also worth pausing to consider the broader context. After the grand jury dismissed the case as ridiculous, it was easy to mock Pirro and the prosecutors he appointed for their humiliating failure, but let’s not miss the forest for the trees: Federal prosecutors wanted to bring serious felony charges against members of Congress who had done nothing wrong. If successful, the charges would have landed the deputies in prison for years.
This is more than crazy. This is also a dangerous step towards an authoritarian path.
What would the political conversation be like right now if Joe Biden publicly stated that he believed Republican members of Congress were engaging in “seditious behavior punishable by DEATH?” and soon after, Biden’s Justice Department sought to charge GOP members with felonies despite no evidence of wrongdoing.
I have a hunch this won’t be well received.
“To my Republican colleagues, I say this: If the executive branch can prosecute members of the legislature simply for exercising free speech, that’s not a problem for Democrats or Republicans, it’s a constitutional crisis,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday. he said.
The New York Democrat called on GOP members to speak up and understand the severity of the circumstances. But so far, Republicans have largely kept their heads down following their failed impeachment effort.
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