MIKE DAVIS: Here's what can be done about the dump that is DC

D.C. grand jury declines to indict Justice Department lawyer Sean Dunn for assaulting federal officers, highlighting partisan legal system issues under Trump reforms.

Mike Davis is the founder of the Article III Project.

It is no wonder that Biden Special Counsel Jack Smith did everything he could to rush to a D.C. trial of President Trump prior to the 2024 election. Regardless of the merits of his case, Smith knew that he had a conviction in the bag based on the composition of the jury pool. He took extraordinary measures to secure a pre-election trial, even attempting to bypass the appellate court to obtain faster Supreme Court review during President Trump’s pretrial immunity appeal. Smith’s belief was well-founded; for instance, a D.C. jury recently had acquitted Michael Sussmann, a Perkins Coie lawyer, for plainly false statements made to Special Counsel John Durham during the probe of the Russiagate investigation. A rabidly partisan D.C. civil jury hammered former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani with a $148 million defamation judgment for statements he had made about election workers concerning their work in the 2020 presidential election.