A federal grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey any illegal orders from the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The declination is a rebuke of the administration’s efforts to paint the six lawmakers — all of whom served in either the military or intelligence services — as dangerously undermining the president’s authority as commander in chief.
I was really hoping that would go to court. I wanted to see them make an argument in front of a judge. I wanted to see them try to say that telling people to follow the law was illegal. That would have been fascinating to see.
You do have a point; anything they tried to put forth as an argument might very well get the lawyers involved censured, perhaps even disbarred.
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That doesn’t mean it won’t see court it just won’t see criminal court. They’d have a pretty good ftca lawsuit going if anyone chose to push it and I think they certainly should.