Another point made by me and others here and reverberated in the McCarthy article:
“Finally, we must note that when the District of Columbia is the venue for any prosecution with political overtones, Justice Department charging decisions must factor in the jury pool, which is solidly anti-Trump.”
“And the jury would be weighing against that evidence (a) whatever problems caused prosecutors at the U.S. attorney’s office to beg off, and more significantly, (b) defense arguments that McCabe would not have been fired or prosecuted if not for the fact that he had gotten crosswise with a president of the United States whom at least some of the jurors are apt to dislike.”
My solution is that Washington DC should be a safe zone from any federal jury trial. Abolish the DC district court.
There are 93 other district courts to choose from and 13 circuit courts in this country. Washington DC has 120 judges in their two courts. Good riddance.
“Abolish the DC district court.” — that is an excellent recommendation. The DC District Court is nothing but a tool of the deep state and does their bidding. The inherent conflict is so obvious on its face — everybody in the greater metropolitan DC area extending far into Virginia and Maryland makes their living off FedZilla. That conflict should disqualify every one of the 6.1 million people in the greater Washington DC metro area from serving on a federal jury.
Good points, but wrong solution. Forget about the DC District Court. My recommendation would be to eliminate the U.S. Department of Justice in its entirety. It didn’t even exist until 1870, and at least 95% of the criminal cases in these courts involve matters that shouldn’t even be Federal crimes.