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This is a very, very interesting article. Link here.
If I understand this correctly, this is how the DA's office historically works:
a crime is committed;
an investigation is conducted;
a grand jury is called and determines if there is sufficient evidence to indict someone;
often there is not, and the case is dropped or put on hold;
if no indictment, those "individuals of interest" are "off the hook"; that's that, and everyone moves on.
Apparently, under the new administration, and again, if I understand this correctly, the US attorney is now taking some of those cases to court regardless of likely outcome -- Trump wants the "individuals of interest" to have their day in court.
From the linked article:
The U.S. attorney in Washington, Jeanine Pirro, has instructed her prosecutors to maximize criminal charges against anyone arrested in the administration’s crackdown on street crime, and charge them with stiffer federal crimes whenever possible.
Ms. Pirro held a staff meeting on Monday, as did her deputy overseeing criminal cases, to emphasize that going forward, there would be far less prosecutorial discretion to allow for charging lesser offenses in any case, according to people familiar with the remarks.
“In line with President Trump’s directive to make D.C. safe, U.S. Attorney Pirro has made it clear that the old way of doing things is unacceptable,” said Tim Lauer, a spokesman for Ms. Pirro. “She directed her staff to charge the highest crime that is supported by the law and the evidence.”
The new directive comes as an influx of hundreds of new federal agents are deployed in Washington, suddenly thrust into street patrol duty. Many federal agents have never done such work before, have little training in the use of force and are inexperienced in what types of suspicious behavior justifies a search of a stranger on the street.
In addition, it's my understanding that Trump wants regular updates of the court's proceedings and wants those updates released to the press.
Again, I may have this wrong, but that's who I interpret this development.