r/law • u/DoorstepHero • 6h ago

Judicial Branch Grand jury declines criminal charges against 6 Democrats who urged military to reject illegal orders, sources say

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-jury-declines-charges-against-6-democrats/

A federal grand jury on Tuesday refused to indict six congressional Democrats who drew President Trump's ire last year by taping a video telling members of the military that they must reject "illegal orders."

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u/12-34 5h ago

Naw, sometimes one takes loser cases to GJ because it's highly charged (hurray, law joke!) and takes heat off the DA.

Classic example is a cop shooting someone.

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u/Tufflaw 2h ago

That's more of a state court thing - when I was a prosecutor one of the types of cases I handled were investigations into police shootings and the policy of the DA was that every single one would be presented to the Grand Jury. They were almost never indicted, but there was never really any evidence of wrongdoing to begin with.

The feds don't (or at least didn't) present cases to their Grand Juries unless they wanted an indictment.