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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Which is the whole point of grand juries.

We've gone for a century with prosecutors being afraid to test the grand jury because it's embarrassing to miss and mostly pointless.

Now we're seeking out fake prosecutors who don't give a fuck.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, just another destruction of norms.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Kind of. There was a reason to create the grand jury concept in the first place.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing. My point was that the norm was not getting an indictment on a grand jury was embarrassing and hurt someone's career. This disincentivized prosecutors from repeatedly bringing a case to a Grand Jury. But Trump and his cronies don't care, breaking the norm, and will keep pushing to get what they want.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    That was the norm for the past century. The norm for centuries before that was that the King could fuck whoever he likes, metaphorically or literally, for any reason.

    They're bringing back old norms.

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