Court Officers Behaving Badly
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The ‘Broadview Six’ case was one of the Trump administration’s prominent prosecutions of anti-ICE protesters. Federal prosecutors in Chicago brought felony charges to fanfare, then curiously dropped them, keeping only misdemeanor counts. Now we know why: they engaged in egregious misconduct to obtain the felony indictments, which they then sought to conceal from the judge, who is not amused.
For all subscribers, we discuss that and US Attorney Andrew Boutros, who issued a weird memo promising reform, and the…
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