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   Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 10:07:27 JST Laffy

   🧵🚨"Federal prosecutors across the country may soon be able to indict members of Congress without approval from lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section...

   ..Investigators & prosecutors would also not be required to consult with the section’s attorneys during key steps of probes into public officials, altering a long-standing provision in the Justice Department’s manual that outlines how investigations of elected officials should be conducted.
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     Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 10:07:30 JST Laffy

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     2/ "If adopted, the changes would remove a layer of review intended to ensure that cases against public officials are legally sound and not politically motivated."

     https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/17/trump-justice-department-prosecutions/

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     John Lusk (tarheel@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 10:07:42 JST John Lusk

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     @GottaLaff

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     Going straight back to the reason grand juries were invented, in... Medieval England, because corrupt, oppressive governments were a thing even before the Enlightenment.