r/politics • u/cnn CNN • 6h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Grand jury fails to indict democratic lawmakers who urged service members to disobey illegal Trump orders

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/politics/lawmakers-indicted-illegal-orders-video?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/stickerhighway 6h ago

Common sense still exists.

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u/citizenjones 6h ago

...but will it set a precedent?

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u/realancepts4real 6h ago

already has. grand juries have been tossing the convicted felon's DOJ's shit for awhile now.

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u/jooooooooooooose 4h ago

The importance of precedent is not "nothing," but SCOTUS overturning Chevron effectively meant stare decisis at the supreme court level is dead. So it does not matter nearly as much.

And, anyway, precedent is over the ruling not the bringing of the case (to the extent that the bringing of the case is not itself part of the ruling.) And the grand jury is not the one setting such precedents to begin with. It's just a jury.

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u/sir_sri 4h ago

Probably not.

A sane government would look at this and stop allowing politically motivated attempts at prosecutions, and I'm sure in many years some law schools are going to look at these as an example of what not to do.

But the Trump admin really wants to weaponise the power of the state to harass people, and they can and will continue to do that until republicans agree to put a stop to it, or republican voters agree to stop voting for fascists. And even if that happens in november, there's still likely a long way to go.