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I was reading a similar thread which was posted later about the same topic. On that thread someone posted a link to a fascinating article by Larry Donofrio about Grand Juries (my link isn't to the same place but the content is the same or similar). As one of the commenters stated in the blog comments at my link:

What an education I get when I come to this site.

I like to think the same thing about FreeRepublic. (In fact I was thinking of posting a similar thought when I returned to the thread.)

But I could not. When I tried to return, the thread was gone. It had been pulled by the Moderator and the reason given was "Nonsense." While I might agree that the notion that a "runaway" Grand Jury presentment against the President of the United States is not likely to go anywhere, the notion that these quaint institutions established by the Framers, since the great modern thinkers don't like them, are "outmoded" is one of the many things that FreeRepublic ought to be about. Moderators who call such threads, "Nonsense," need remedial training if they are allowed to remain at all.

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Are you aware that even Leo Donofrio condemns this citizens’ grand jury? The articles he wrote about the power of presentment were written in 2005 to encourage citizens to investigate government corruption after they were sworn in as grand jurors under federal authority. Grand Jurors don’t have to stick to the agenda of prosecutors. They can investigate whatever they dang well please, but only after they’re empaneled by federal authority. Donofrio believes this citizens’ grand jury is illegal and dangerous because the wording they used could get them arrested.

With that said, any rights not outlined in the Constitution and not specifically prohibited by it are reserved to the States and then the people. So, if there were an existing legal framework under which this could be established, it could work. But there isn’t, so it doesn’t.