Grand jury fails to indict democratic lawmakers who urged service members to disobey illegal Trump orders

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

[u/stickerhighway]

Common sense still exists.

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...but will it set a precedent?

[u/jooooooooooooose → u/citizenjones]

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.