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Aaron Wells's avatar

Donny’s keystone cops are so fucking bad they can’t even indict a sandwich

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Attack with a sloppy weapon ... Grease stains instead of blood stains!

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Lance Khrome's avatar

Joyce Vance had a brilliant column on the "no-bill" phenomenon, suggesting a way that ordinary citizens, sitting on a grand jury, can stifle nonsense "felony"indictments, ending with the inability of Jeanine Perro to indict a Subway sandwich"!

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/no-bill?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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Patrick John Gillam's avatar

We can retire that truism that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

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Ben's avatar

"Assault with a deli weapon" -- outstanding. You made my day.

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Geoff's avatar

The Earl of Sandwich v. The Prince of Orange

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Karen Katzenyammer's avatar

The government is grabbing people off the street and putting them in deportation camps and that is ok. But tossing a sandwich is taking up the brain power of our current DOJ resources? Let that sink in MAGA.

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Guy Clark's avatar

The government can, apparently, indict a HAM sandwich, but not a SALAMI sandwich.

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Manqueman's avatar

I assume the DC Hero Sandwich Hero Thrower can be dragged before another grand jury, no?

As for Cook, the Fed and the Roberts junta: My recollection is that the junta kind of only suggested that the Fed’s independence protected it from our beloved Fuhrer’s whims. I wouldn’t take that statement or whatever to suggest that when actually presented with the actual issue they’ll back the Fed’s independence over Donny’s whims and lashing out and stuff.

As always with Donny, Roberts (for one) has the long time SCOTUS concern by having decisions ignored. The ur-example, I suppose, is Brown v Bd of Ed I. And you know Donny will ignore every order and decision he doesn’t like.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

As noted above, feds tried three times, with three different GJ presentations, to indict on phony felony charges another DC resident caught up in an ICE melee, and failed thrice. "Fake it 'til you make it" ain't working in DC!

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Manqueman's avatar

So they’ll try again with the Hero Sandwich Hero.

You can’t say No to Donny, so likewise his DOJ, I guess.

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TCinLA's avatar

Americans haven't had to deal with an out-of-control crazy sovereign before, so we have little experience with why Grand Juries were originally created in England.

They were not created so a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich, but rather so the ham sandwich could get away free.

The Grand Jury is the bulwark in law against the out-of-control sovereign, to keep bullshit indictments like these from proceeding. It's good to see that ours can operate as designed, even without the citizens knowing that's their job.

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N S's avatar

Could you please explain the significance of the thread of the day for us non-lawyers?

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David Kurtz's avatar

I'm afraid it's pretty convoluted. Steve Vladeck is quite skilled at explaining the most complicated legal entanglements, and he has a new piece on this that might help clear things up for you, including why it's significant: https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-174-playing-the-justices-for

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Gregg Barak's avatar

And who said anybody could indict a ham sandwich? But seriously, here is why Trump does all the shit he does:

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/is-trump-a-psychopath/.

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McLain's avatar

I believe Samuel Alito made the ham sandwich remark.

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Nelsonsdad's avatar

The entirety of what you've written here is dispiriting to say the least. None of this is being done in my name, from my own perspective, but it's all happening just the same.

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Workers over Billionaires

organized by MayDay/50501

https://maydaystrong.org/

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organized by AFL CIO

https://workerslaborday.org/

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The AFL CIO protest has a slight slant towards worker's rights, while the MayDay protest leans more into civilian rights. Each speaks out against the Trump Regime.

Both have marches and rallies, while the AFL CIO is also hosting picnics and parades. They each share some of the same local events. Why not attend both?

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Keep protests peaceful.

Don't kill anyone.

Here are resistance related guides from around the world:

🇺🇸 Fundamentals of physical surveillance: a guide for uniformed and plainclothes personnel

https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsofph0000silj

The RCMP has its own publications including:

🇨🇦 GCPSG-022 (2025) - Threat and Risk Assessment Guide

GCPSG-010 (2022) - Operational Physical Security Guide

🇨🇦 GCPSG-019 (2023) - Protection, Detection, Response, and Recovery Guide

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/physec-secmat/pubs/index-eng.htm

The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation also has excellent guides on:

🇺🇸 Street Level Surveillance

https://sls.eff.org

🇺🇸 Surveillance Self-Defense

https://ssd.eff.org/

🇪🇺 🇸🇪⚠️ Resistance Operating Concept

https://jsou.edu/Press/PublicationDashboard/25

🇺🇦 🇺🇲 Radio Free Ukraine Resistance Manual

https://radiofreeukraine.com/3d-flip-book/resistance-manual/

⚠️ Assessing Revolutionary And Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Studies

Small Wars Journal

Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Project

https://smallwarsjournal.com/2012/08/05/assessing-revolutionary-and-insurgent-strategies-aris-project/

Author's website:

On Resistance, Revolutions, and Insurgencies

https://zimmerer.typepad.com/resistance/

Free PDF download of the book from the original author:

Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare, Volume II 1962 - 2009

http://zimmerer.typepad.com/Documents/ARIS%20Casebook%20Vol%202%202012%20s.pdf

⚠️ Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System

https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civilian-based-defense-a-post-military-weapons-system/

🏁 Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co

⚠️ Library of Congress

Revelations from the Russian archives: documents in English translation

https://www.loc.gov/item/96024752

🏁 Robert Reich/Resistance School

Communicating Across Difference

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaT8gjnOmQl3dguy0_E0vVCL5ZYEyCTzu

🏁 Bernie Sanders:

https://m.youtube.com/@BernieSanders

🏁 CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists:

Safety Kit

https://cpj.org/safety-kit/

🏁 Activist Handbook:

https://activisthandbook.org/introduction

(⚠️ These are USA sponsored websites. Some publications may have been removed by the Trump regime)

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