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Grand jury declines to indict Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to disobey illegal Trump orders | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] forrgott 13 points 3 weeks ago

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.