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BumRushDaShow

(160,228 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:11 PM Sep 6

Pam Bondi's DOJ facing a 'citizens' revolt' as prosecution efforts flop: report

Source: Raw Story

September 6, 2025 8:48AM ET


Attempts by the Department of Justice to prosecute Americans who are balking at Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses are not finding a friendly audience when cases are being presented before grand juries long considered to be prosecutor-friendly.

According to Alan Feuer, writing for The New York Times, the U.S. Attorneys appointed by Trump and working under the supervision of Attorney General Pam Bondi are finding it rough sledding getting grand juries to return a true bill that would set the stage to proceed to the courtroom –– and there is a reason for that.

As Feur is reporting, “In what could be read as a citizens’ revolt, ordinary people serving on grand juries have repeatedly refused in recent days to indict their fellow residents who became entangled in either the president’s immigration crackdown or his more recent show of force.”

Noting that seven prominent cases have already been stymied by grand juries, he admitted there is no way to know what transpired in grand jury deliberations; nonetheless, a trend is becoming very apparent.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673966959/

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Buddyzbuddy

(1,472 posts)
2. On the flipside, this Administration can see the writing on the wall,
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:44 PM
Sep 6

should they end up in front of a Grand Jury of these same citizens. It's called justice, something that is very foreign to this DOJ.

SWBTATTReg

(25,702 posts)
3. We shouldn't get too comfortable w/ these citizen juries (grand juries) refusing to indict people, before long, tRUMP
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:16 PM
Sep 6

will impose his own military judges/juries to try people. At that time, that would be the time when Americans really need to get up in the Administration's face, and say NO! But I wouldn't put it pass tRUMP to fake a war somewhere to be able to declare military law/martial law, when the evidence is so weak, so little.

Midnight Writer

(24,714 posts)
7. This is why Trump and his minions hate the due process guaranteed to every person by our Constitution.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 07:53 PM
Sep 6

Trump wants to deny all of us our due process rights, and I am afraid our bought and paid for conservative Supreme Court Justices will let him.

DinahMoeHum

(23,172 posts)
10. Pammy Jo Bimbo's DOJ can't kick a duck. . .
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:13 PM
Sep 6

. . .in the ass unless they stand on a brick, and even then, they miss the mark so many times.

bmichaelh

(945 posts)
13. Malicious Prosecution
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 02:27 AM
Sep 7

I wonder when their victims will turn the tables and go after her and others for malicious prosecution.

Republicans on SCOTUS will probably protect her.

BumRushDaShow

(160,228 posts)
14. I expect some of the will
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 07:35 AM
Sep 7

if they can muster the resources of some organization like the ACLU and/or of the defendant was a "notable" person and/or has $$$ to go the distance (if anything, to get a quietly agreed-to "settlement" ).

Username1234

(16 posts)
15. As usual, Raw Story gets it wrong.
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 08:26 AM
Sep 8

(For the life of me, I don't know why y'all constantly post this Qanon of the Left content... You're just fooling yourselves and helping the MAGAts by filling liberal brains with misinformation...)

It's not the juries that are different -- it's the prosecutors. They are bringing cases that would never normally be charged, which is what Pirro said she'd do. Also: It's what the judges are literally saying in court -- that cases are being brought that shouldn't be. It was literally just reported out last week that judges were saying this. It's the prosecutors, not the juries. Pirro's prosecutors are violating the rule to only bring cases they know they can win, it's the prosecutors throwing poo against the wall.

Quoting the NYT on what "could be read as a citizens' revolt" is so sloppy and lazy that someone needs their journalism degree clawed back.

BumRushDaShow

(160,228 posts)
16. HERE is a link to the NYT article they are quoting from and witten by NYT reporter Alan Feuer
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 09:22 AM
Sep 8
Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Wave of Charges Under Trump’s Crackdown

Alan Feuer

I’m a reporter covering extremism and political violence for The New York Times.

What I Cover

My focus is on the criminal cases involving the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and against former President Donald J. Trump.

My Background

I have been writing about crime and criminal justice for The New York Times since 1999, covering cases involving the Mafia, Mexican drug cartels, murders and corrupt police officers and politicians.

(snip)


Here is the direct quote in the excerpt that was taken FROM the above article -

In what could be read as a citizens’ revolt, ordinary people serving on grand juries have repeatedly refused in recent days to indict their fellow residents who became entangled in either the president’s immigration crackdown or his more recent show of force. It has happened in at least seven cases — including three times for the same defendant.


Raw Story does 3 things -

1.) They report on/summarize other news sites' articles (many that originate on paywalled sites, which makes it easier to get content)
2.) They have reporters/columnists/writers from various other media and blogsites who contribute an article
3.) They have their staff actually sit there and watch the political news/commentary shows/podcasts and will summarize them

There is nothing nefarious about concluding that a series of recent Grand Juries in D.C. have FAILED to result in indictments for the mess that Pirro has sent to them, and that this circumstance could effectively be considered "a revolt" (by the citizens of the city of Washington D.C. - at least those who were called to serve out of a random pool).

And this has now happened in at least 7 cases, which is extraordinarily rare because Grand Juries ARE handled by Prosecutors and the defendants have no say, so they have a full court press.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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