“My guess is that these grand jurors are seeing prosecutorial overreach and they don’t want to be part of it,”
The Trump administration’s efforts are also being stymied by judges who are growing weary of being led astray by the DOJ prosecutors.
“The erosion of this trust — known in legal parlance as the presumption of regularity — has been widespread in the many civil cases challenging Mr. Trump’s political agenda, where judges have repeatedly accused Justice Department lawyers of misleading them or violating their orders,” Feuer wrote before adding, “But now the phenomenon has started to crop up in criminal cases, too.”