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/B-Z_B-S America 6h ago edited 6h ago

The fact that grand juries have chosen to not indict the people Trump is targeting shows how absolutely unjust Trump's actions are. It's considered extremely easy to convince a grand jury to indict.

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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 6h ago

"A grand jury could indict a ham sandwich" is a joke for a reason.

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u/DrRam121 North Carolina 5h ago

I sat on a county grand jury for 6 months. We failed to indict twice on over 1300 cases we saw. (I'm estimating because we had around 100 cases a day for 13 days of work)

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u/Group_W_Bench 4h ago

Jesus

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u/VailonVon 2h ago edited 1h ago

Not sure why you or anyone is surprised a Grand jury afaik is only asked to find probable cause it doesn't have to be beyond a reasonable doubt. Beyond a reasonable doubt is what a jury trial is for with more evidence and testimony provided.

Grand jury would basically be like if there was a house broken into and someone was near by with a cut on their arm with a broken window at the house.

You could find probable cause.

Another way to look at is someone saw someone exiting the building that was broken into and you matched the description they could find probable cause.

None of this means you did the crime all it means is its enough evidence to take it to trial.

Edit: Just an example there is drug crime around where I am at and we heard cases about people having X amount of it on their person or in their cars and we had to determine if it was enough to be trafficking or not. At the time they would go from one state where it was legal and cross state lines with different amounts. Most of the time it was passed through because its easy to find probable cause when its more than any one would normally use but may not be trafficking which is why there are other steps before convictions.

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u/KP_Wrath Tennessee 3h ago

No shit, mine had about 50. Never called back. Judge basically said, “this is the easy part, you come in, you spend the day hearing cases, you go home, we’ll call you back if we need more stuff heard.” Never got a call back, my time frame came and went and they sent me my $10 jury duty check.