DC Law

American Thinker.com ^ | February 16, 2020 | Clarice Feldman

[Kaslin]

So many of this week’s top news stories involve legal matters in Washington, D.C. that I’m making it the focus of this week’s column.

There’s the Roger Stone case, the decision to close the investigation into Andrew McCabe over the Horowitz referral that indicated that he had lied to the FBI about the Clinton email leak, and Congressman Jerry Nadler’s calling Attorney General William Barr as a witness in an upcoming hearing.

(a) The Problem with DC juries

Washington, D.C. has a relatively small population from which jurors must be found for the federal and local grand juries, petit juries, and civil juries. People who serve on these juries must be citizens with no felony convictions, people with no connection to the attorneys or parties, and must have no bias respecting the matter tried. Since almost 80% of the city are Democratic voters, often employed by the government or are connected to law enforcement or have family members who are, the ability to expeditiously find panels in criminal cases is limited. Worse yet, the chance of an unbiased panel in a case involving Republican figures is minimal. If you think this puts Republican figures at far greater risk than Democrats, you are certainly not wrong. Recall if you will the prosecutor who publicly stated the Starr special counsel’s office believed Hillary Clinton had lied to the grand jury, but because ethical prosecutors are not to bring cases they have no reasonable likelihood of winning and no D.C. jury would convict her, they were declining to prosecute her.

[Kaslin]

I just love this sentence by Clarice Feldman

I predict Nadler will end up as a 300-pound lump of melting suet.

[tomkat]

300 is probably Clarice being kind   ;-)

[upchuck]

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[jimfree]

Clarice is great. Had the opportunity to join her and a few other FB friends for a supper meet-up in DC a year or so ago.

[Bernard]

As much as I would like to see the government have the ability to seek a change of venue in order to prosecute Andrew McCabe and Hillary Clinton, America is better off if only the defendant can request a change in venue.

Which is another strong reason to relocate government agencies out of the DC swamp.

[griswold3]

Criminal charges are warning to other who would support Trump. “This could happen to you “.
MO of “Progressives “

[Robert DeLong]

That is the factor a lot of Freepers seem to forget when they lambast Bill Barr for having no convictions to date. I wonder if he even has any indictments, to be honest. Primarily because getting indictments against Democrats is nigh impossible in D.C., and Maryland along with Virginia have become increasingly harder as well.

We talk about the left eating their own, but many "conservatives" are just as guilty. Just for different reasons. Our side is driven by frustration more than anything else, and to a degree a lack of understanding the hurdles Republicans face within our justice system.

[bk1000]

Aren’t criminal trials occasionally tried in a different location to ensure a fair trial? Something about an impartial jury? We are no better than the enemies we pretend to be above. Have we become an oligarchy? Burn the house down!

[wastoute]

Sounds like more of a reason to burn DC down than to put up with more of it.

[gasport]

How can contempt be sent to Amy Bergman Jackson?

[goldstategop]

If Stone gets to move the case out of DC, it would almost certainly be dropped by the DOJ.

It couldn’t win in a front of a fair judge and jury.

[Robert DeLong]

Be careful what you wish for, the end result may not be what you perceive it will be. Let’s just say this country is in very grave danger.

[Elsie]

Let’s just say this country is in very grave danger.

It's been 'legal' to kill the unborn for HOW many decades now??