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Grand Juries are mentioned in the Constitution, but back then, they were a protection against just this kind of prosecution. A safeguard.
Since then, they've basically changed the definition of what a grand jury is, turning it from a check on the prosecution into a tool of it. As the saying goes, for our generations they can indict a ham sandwhich.
This administration is just so ham handed they have failed to even do that. They are too arrogant to try and craft a believable case, too arrogant to wait until they find a plausible case. Just like their lies. Their allies pretend to believe them, like their lies justifying the summary executions of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. So they don't try, believing everyone is corrupt as them and their sycophants.
But because of the Magna Carta, and English Common Law, and the Constitution that was borne from them, we have these jury trials, and grand juries, whatever bastard remains of the latter, and citizens, not handpicked sycophants in the legal system, decide guilt or innocence.
And while our politicians, courts, prosecutors, et al, are corrupt, and by and large think the republic is dead already, most of the citizenry doesn't.
Here in this country, the UK cancelled jury trials by the way, for up to 3 years in prison, up from 1 year exemption in 2020. They underfunded, sabotaged the courts to jamn them up then used he backlog as an excuse to cancel the magna carta and allow their handpicked magistrates to decide guilt. It moves things along so much quicker when you cancel the time honored freedoms of the west I suppose.
There is a push to pervert our rights across the west right now, not just in the UK and the US. We in the US despite having the perhaps worst politicians by character, also have one of the strongest systems of rights and checks and balances, in law if not in fact. We just have to find a way to get them to be honored.