Hey, why not indict all the Republicans?
Except maybe those who voted for Trump’s impeachment.
This grand jury in Fulton County probably would have done so, if asked:
The grand jury wanted to charge 39 people allied with President Donald Trump.
The list includes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), former Georgia Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and Michael Flynn.
The district attorney ended up charging 19 people, including Trump.
That’s some conspiracy. There’s plenty of precedent in the annals of tyrannical regimes for outlawing the opposition party, and the Democrats would dearly love to do just that. But even Fani Willis didn’t go that far – yet, anyway.
A grand jury has a very different task than a jury. A grand jury only hears the evidence favorable to the prosecution. That gives a prosecutor who wants to go after certain people perceived as enemies a great deal of power, and an unscrupulous prosecutor is capable of great harm. But Fani Willis is not a rogue prosecutor acting on her own. The Democratic Party is wholly behind her, and her actions are part of a – dare I say “conspiracy”? – on the part of the left, which has taken over the party almost entirely.
NOTE: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – even back in law school when I was a Democrat, I was very very troubled by the broadness and opportunity for prosecutorial abuse afforded by the conspiracy laws.
I have commented from time to time that the Grand Jury system, which was presumably intended to protect people from spurious prosecution, has been totally corrupted and weaponized.
Unfortunately, this is a trend, and not an anomaly, with respect to so many aspects of our government.
The group of people empanelled was not a “regular” grand jury but rather a “special purpose” grand jury.
In a regular grand jury, the prosecutor presents the evidence why he or she thinks a person committed a crime. The jury then considers the evidence, deliberates, and (if it finds the evidence sufficiently compelling), votes for an indictment against the person.
In Georgia’s special grand jury, the jury is the prosecutor. Unlike a regular jury, they have broad powers to investigate (including issuing subpoenas). ADAs provide guidance on relevant laws, but it is the jury that ultimately decides who participated in a particular event and whether criminal indictments are warranted. The special grand jury may only recommend indictments, not issue them directly. Hence only 19 of the 39 individuals named in the final report of the special grand jury were actually indicted by DA Willis.
I find it rather obvious that persecution of political enemies is easily accomplished with a special grand jury. Rather than a grand jury deciding if sufficient evidence exists, only the DA makes that decision. A regular grand jury provides a check, however mild, against an overly zealous prosecutor; a special grand jury provides no such check at all.
Since in their minds we are all guilty of wrong think, which they now consider the gravest of crimes… If they attain enough power and control, it is just a matter of time until Jordan Peterson style ‘reeducation’ for all of us is declared mandatory. Which is when they shall seal their fate.
Yukon:
Interesting – I hadn’t realized it was a special grand jury. Either way, though, grand juries are not much of a check, and in Fulton County I wouldn’t imagine they are much of a check at all against this DA’s intent.
Could be. Might be a Democratic Party conspiracy, maybe some deep state plot, a politically motivated witch hunt.
Or, it might be that the Trump regime had no regard whatsoever for the law, placed themselves above the law, and blatantly broke the law in broad daylight with abandon with no indication of remorse or future restraint.
Or, it might be that the Trump regime had no regard whatsoever for the law, placed themselves above the law, and blatantly broke the law in broad daylight with abandon with no indication of remorse or future restraint.
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No, it wasn’t that.
RJW, you’re describing the Biden regime, which has frequently ignored laws and court rulings it considers wrong or inconvenient.
Related:
“Trump is being denied due process”—
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/09/08/trump-is-being-denied-due-process-n576704
H/T Instapundit.
Of course he is.
Isn’t that the whole point?
+ Bonus:
“Full Authoritarian: New Mexico Governor Suspends Constitutional Gun Rights For Law-Abiding Citizens In Albuquerque”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/full-authoritarian-new-mexico-governor-restricts-constitutional-gun-rights-law-abiding
Key graf:
‘…Constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley said the move by Grisham is flagrantly unconstitutional under existing Second Amendment precedent.”…’
https://danaloesch.substack.com/p/breaking-new-mexico-governor-suspends
Key graph:
“…Grisham also said that her oath to the Constitution “is not absolute” and gave these examples to justify her ban…”
I heard that a grand jury — I heard it was the same grand jury — had indicted 61 rioters in the left’s “Cop City” protests, complete with racketeering, money laundering, and domestic terrorism charges. When I stopped at a store with CNN on and a chiron about 39 indictments I assumed that’s what they were talking about.
Was it really the same grand jury? All those cases and charges sound like too much for one deliberative body to handle, and indeed, they didn’t handle it very well. And can a jury really serve as prosecutor? Surely a lot of names must have been presented by the prosecutors to the jury.
“had indicted 61 rioters in the left’s “Cop City” protests”
Let’s see if they follow through.
https://notthebee.com/article/cities-have-been-forced-to-pay-out-68-million-to-antifa-and-blm-rioters-from-2020-this-after-they-caused-more-than-2-billion-in-damage
Homer Simpson Meme. “Haven’t been charged yet!”
@RJW
It obviously is. We’ve seen countless examples of that before.
Complete BULLSHIT. Trump’s conduct in the Presidency was not ideal but he was scrupulous at adhering to the law, even those that he disagreed with, and even about the appearance of misconduct. That bit him in the rear multiple times as it enabled snakes in the grass like Barr.
It’s also telling how for all of the rhetoric you and your SA ilk spew, none have been able to change the fact that Trump intended January 6th to be a fully peacful, law abiding assembly.
no this was a grand jury convened by the atty general Chris Carr using the same RICO law, against real ‘mostly peaceful protestors’ that tried to destroy a police training center,
none of the proscribed actions, that procurators willis and smith have conjured up have ever been crimes in any vernacular,