One of President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutors suffered an "abject humiliation" in court recently, according to two experts.
Jeanine Pirro, Trump's U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., attempted to indict six Democratic lawmakers for making a social media video where they told military troops that they don't have to follow illegal orders. A grand jury refused to indict the lawmakers, and Trump's Department of Justice moved to drop the case on Tuesday.
Progressive analyst Brian Tyler Cohen and Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, discussed the move on a new episode of "The Legal Breakdown" podcast on Tuesday.
Cohen described the move as an "abject humiliation" for Pirro.
Kirschner was shocked to learn that zero grand jury members voted to indict the lawmakers, too.
"Take it from this old Army JAG," Kirschner said. "Somehow, someway, Donald Trump convinced Jeanine Pirro to go into the grand jury and try to indict them for what? Treason or sedition. We don't know exactly what the proposed charges are. The problem is the prosecutors didn't know what the proposed charges were either."
"But mind you, these offenses are potentially punishable by death," he continued. "So, she sent a prosecutor in to try to obtain indictments in a potential death penalty case, even though no crimes had been committed."