It is highly unusual for prosecutors to fail even once to obtain an indictment from a grand jury given the way the process is stacked in favor of the government.
It is highly unusual for prosecutors to fail even once to obtain an indictment from a grand jury given the way the process is stacked in favor of the government.
This is one of the last levels of safeguard: At the end of the day, public opinion matters for whether or not you can put people in prison (or even put them through the life-changingly traumatic and expensive experience of a major criminal trial.)
They are trying to change that, of course. George W. introducing whole new systems that were outside the normal constitutional safeguards was deeply horrifying to a lot of people, because it laid the groundwork which Trump is now so many years later building his camps on.