Scott MacFarlane
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And you have a lower threshold.
You don't have to get the entire grand jury to go along with something.
It's just a subset of grand jurors who need to sign off on an indictment.
But we are seeing examples of it.
I can count a half dozen just in Washington, D.C.
We've seen them in Virginia.
We've seen them elsewhere across the country where grand jurors have taken a stand and said no to the administration.
And that stuff's contagious, Don.
The word gets around about that.
Grand jurors do not live in a bubble.
And this gets more and more difficult for any arm of the Department of Justice to make a case
the more times grand jurors stand up and say no.
And trial jurors are pretty good at that too.
I'll go back to that sandwich throwing monstrosity of a case from 2025 in Washington.
Grand jurors said no.
Trump administration did an end run to get that case charged anyhow.
Then a trial jury said no, like in minutes, like at the time that it would take to eat the free jury lunch.
They went back and said no.
So there is a barrier.