The dangerous loophole turning U.S. attorney’s offices into political instruments
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- The Hill reports: “In February 1897, all criminal prosecutions in the District of Columbia stopped. Trials were postponed. New arrestees unable to post bond faced indefinite detention. A wanted fugitive captured in a…”
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