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Arwyn3x 3 points ago +3 / -0

WE could take up a collection and offer to pay residents the six States that follow the constitution and allow Citizens of their State to petition a Judge to impanel a Grand Jury

Wouldn't you love to get a few of those crooks in front of a Citizen's Grand Jury.

Justice Scalia wrote in United States v. Williams, 112 S. Ct. 1735, 504 U.S. 36, 118 L. Ed. 2d 352 (1992).

."...the grand jury under our Constitution does not belong to any of the three branches of government, but instead to We the People. As a result, the citizenry are empowered to empanel grand juries, indict, try, convict and mete out sentences for those accused of crimes.

Read this please:

The (OUR) grand jury’s functional independence from the judicial branch is evident both in the scope of its power to investigate criminal wrongdoing, and in the manner in which that power is exercised.

“Unlike [a] [c]ourt, whose jurisdiction is predicated upon a specific case or controversy, the grand jury ‘can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even because it wants assurance that it is not.’ It need not identify the offender it suspects, or even “the precise nature of the offense” it is investigating. -Justice Scalia

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ruled in the landmark case of United States v. Williams, 112 S. Ct. 1735, 504 U.S. 36, 118 L. Ed. 2d 352 (1992),

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/504/36