Originally published at: Longtime Prosecutors Left, Bogus Cases Collapsed as Boutros Charged Broadview Six - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The Broadview Six case didn’t happen in a void. In the month that Chicago federal prosecutors returned three times to the same grand jury to try to secure an indictment of the same set of protesters, their office was under intense pressure. Greg Bovino had arrived in the city the month before, heralding a surge…
MAGA influencer Mike Davis tweeted within hours of the arrests that Kat Abughazaleh should be charged with pretty much exactly what all six defendants were charged with, including conspiracy. It was taken up immediately by a bunch of other MAGA twitter accounts. That is where this malicious prosecution began.
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The idea that grand jurors can’t exercise their conscience flies in the face of the historical role of grand juries, which was to provide a societal check on overzealous prosecutors.
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And what, thinking “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” is verboten?
Is being anti-fascist assholeryism not allowed either?
What would Don Rickles say?
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“When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, ‘Hey, you hockey puck!’” – Don Rickles
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These prosecutirs should be disbarred, their JDs revoked by their law schools so they could not even theoretically apply for rinstatement, and personally pay the defendants’ defense costs, and the broadest conceivable consequential damages, trebled.
If they are discovered to have paid any of these amounts with funds from an outside source, they should be imprisoned until they verifiably pay with their own funds (e.g., no wingnut sugar daddy, no gofundme, no taxpayer dollars).
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Exactly what is the different procedure - dismissal? After reading it several times, it appears that he is bullying the jurors.
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