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(160,187 posts) Thu Aug 28, 2025, 06:15 AM Aug 28

'It's a mess': DC courts on brink of collapse as Trump floods them with arrests [View all]

Source: Raw Story

August 27, 2025 6:20PM ET

President Donald Trump's federal takeover of D.C. has the local courts stretched to breaking point, CNN reported on Wednesday.

Trump's D.C. U.S. Attorney, former Fox News commentator Jeanine Pirro, "has encouraged its prosecutors to bring more cases to federal court with the most serious charges they can pursue. Defense attorneys across the city believe weaker cases are now being brought into the system as smaller infractions are bumped up to more serious charges," reported Katelyn Polantz, Marshall Cohen, Holmes Lybrand, and Casey Gannon.

“It’s a real mess right now,” AJ Kramer, the federal public defender for DC, told CNN of the overwhelmed judicial process.

Complicating the issue, Trump's prosecutors have been instructed to leave as many people in jail pending trial as possible, "despite a longstanding approach of courts keeping people accused of non-violent or petty crimes out of jail unless they’re convicted" — a move further cemented by Trump's order instructing D.C. courts to end cashless bail policies.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-courts-2673933739/

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'It's a mess': DC courts on brink of collapse as Trump floods them with arrests [View all] BumRushDaShow Aug 28 OP

Economic stagflation, court coagulation bucolic_frolic Aug 28 #1

As long as it doesn't touch them personally, most Trumpists will applaud maxsolomon Aug 28 #22

Pirro can't indict a ham sandwich Danascot Aug 28 #2

"can't indict a ham sandwich" orangecrush Aug 28 #3

What did the ham sandwich do? IronLionZion Aug 28 #12

New female Olympic event, The Sandwich Throw. Categories include, six inch, footlong, extra meat, baked. twodogsbarking Aug 28 #4

Keeping people in jail means they may lose jobs and their families may not eat. Lonestarblue Aug 28 #5

These arrests and inflated charges are intended as proof that serious crime is rampant in DC Martin Eden Aug 28 #6

Yes, this is Trump's excuse for taking over the city completely. ananda Aug 28 #21

Well, its not like the Judges or the courts they run are powerless here... Volaris Aug 28 #7

Or they could ask their colleagues on the Supremes Farmer-Rick Aug 28 #10

Well, speaking of the SC, i would love them to go find a camera, Volaris Aug 28 #16

It's intentional. 58Sunliner Aug 28 #8

They're mean as snakes. Hatred for them grows daily. Joinfortmill Aug 28 #9

Clearly an attempt to destroy what's left of the judicial "system". GreenWave Aug 28 #11

These "arrests" should be handled in local courts, not federal courts FakeNoose Aug 28 #13

DC is a Federal district. Pretty much all of the courts are "federal"... Wounded Bear Aug 28 #18

These are the same people who thought that violent January 6ths being held in pre-trial detention... Tommy Carcetti Aug 28 #14

Excellent point! chouchou Aug 28 #15

Don't forget that Moses Mike and his band of ass,,,,, Old Crank Aug 28 #17

All part of the master plan to destroy American justice, as shaky as it has been for a while...nt Wounded Bear Aug 28 #19

Republican governing republianmushroom Aug 28 #20

So the Trump administration is trumping up charges? Owens Aug 28 #23

There are 29 federal judges in the DC District courts. They handled hundreds of Jan 6 cases. FWIW... ancianita Aug 28 #24

Actually, D.C. itself has it's own courts BumRushDaShow Aug 28 #25

Have you seen the federal justices' names? ancianita Aug 28 #26

Not the same court (although all the judges in any of their courts are nominated by Presidents) BumRushDaShow Aug 28 #27

It WILL fucking collapse. There's no way DC can handle all this shit on a daily basis with no end in sight. Karasu Aug 28 #28