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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social

what is the legality of this? how many times can one try to obtain an indictment for the same alleged offense?

aug 26, 2025, 2:27 pm • 111 4

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social

Didn't Ken Starr tell you?

aug 26, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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More Abstract Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social

There's no limit although sooner or later you might get district judges to call it misconduct based on their general supervisorial power

aug 26, 2025, 2:31 pm • 216 4 • view
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Edward DeRuiter @edwardderuiter.bsky.social

Trump is gonna turn us all into accidental sovereign citizens. Everyone on a grand jury will just say "we refuse to indict because this so called 'Department of Justice' has no legitimacy"

aug 26, 2025, 2:58 pm • 4 1 • view
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Mark Warner Primary Challenger Enthusiast @birdlawenthusiast.bsky.social

Unfortunately it seems increasingly likely SCOTUS will undercut any attempt to sanction attorneys or bring contempt charges for brazen misconduct. Doesn’t mean that judges shouldnt start getting names on the record though.

aug 26, 2025, 2:35 pm • 45 1 • view
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Bill @finintheland.bsky.social

Just re-emphasizing how rare it is to have a single no bill in a Fed grand jury case. The jury weighs its vote based on a probable cause standard. They don’t need a unanimous vote.

aug 26, 2025, 2:54 pm • 4 0 • view
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Col. B. S. Flynn @bsflynn.bsky.social

There's no double jeopardy for indictments. In theory they could try unlimited times.

aug 26, 2025, 2:30 pm • 3 0 • view
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Damon Bernstein @damonkb54.bsky.social

The sell by date of the luncheon meat

aug 26, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social

"We can only try to convict you once, but we can try to indict you forever! Loophole!"

Psychotic droid Triple-Zero, singing joyously that he's found a loophole in order to not murder any one.
aug 26, 2025, 2:41 pm • 4 0 • view
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social

The bigger problem is that "legality" doesn't seem to mean anything to these clowns. They've decided that "legality" is whatever they say it is in any given moment and that is not binding for the next moment.

aug 26, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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cantorsdust @cantorsdust.bsky.social

You’d think there would be a double jeopardy component there, but I’m not a lawyer. It seems somewhat absurd that you could just repeat the grand jury process ad infinitum with shame being the only limiting factor. The problem is they don’t have shame.

aug 26, 2025, 2:29 pm • 4 0 • view
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The Looch @thelooch.bsky.social

the only limit is 30 days. jeopardy doesn’t attach each time a grand jury declines to indict.

aug 26, 2025, 2:30 pm • 3 0 • view