House Speaker Mike Johnson declared Tuesday that six Democratic lawmakers “should be indicted” for their joint video urging military and intelligence personnel to disobey illegal orders — hours after a federal grand jury refused to bring charges against any of them.
The grand jury’s rejection landed squarely on the Justice Department’s doorstep. Prosecutors, operating out of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office in the District of Columbia, failed to convince even a majority of grand jurors that probable cause existed to indict, The Hill reported. For those unfamiliar with the threshold, probable cause is the floor, not the ceiling. It is the lowest evidentiary standard in criminal law. Prosecutors couldn’t clear it.
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