Grand juries arent like juries in regular trials. They meet in secret 16 to 23 citizens summoned from the community. No judge is present. No lawyers who represent defendants are present. No witnesses appear. Prosecutors are in total command presenting evidence of a crime and asking grand juries to indict. And the evidentiary standard is not whether a crime occurred beyond a reasonable doubt, but merely whether there is probable cause of a federal crime.
THIS is why, up until now, so much nonsense gets prosecuted, or conversely, why some outrageously criminal people evade justice.
No Heather Cox Richardson today. I refuse to share her Lincoln worship on the Blog. I detest War Criminal Lincoln and the historical rewrite of his atrocities and genocide.