Yes we know this argument. That Flint is a black city run by black democrats. Yea yea, we know.
The Michigan Attorney General's Office Thursday announced criminal charges for eight former state officials, including the state's former Gov. Rick Snyder, along with one current official, for their alleged roles in the Flint water crisis.
Together the group
face 42 counts related to the
drinking water catastrophe roughly seven years ago. The crimes range from perjury to misconduct in office to involuntary manslaughter.
The drinking water debacle is linked to at least
12 deaths and at least 80 people sickened with Legionnaires' disease after untreated water from the Flint River caused lead to leach from old pipes, poisoning the majority Black city's water system.
So go fuck yourself trying to blame the black woman mayor of Flint. Seriously, go fuck yourself.
You have not given any reason not to blame her for her politically motivated prosecution.
The Michigan Supreme Court threw out charges on Tuesday against former Governor Rick Snyder and eight public officials involved in the 2014 Flint Water crisis, saying a one-man jury wrongly indicted them.
Attorney General Dana Nessel, who took office in 2019, authorized using a one-man grand jury rather than charging officials in open court. That one man — Democrat-appointed Judge David Newblatt — issued the indictments after considering the evidence behind closed doors.
Chief Justice Bridget McCormack called the one-man jury a “Star Chamber comeback,” referencing 17th-century English court proceedings held in secret and abused by high-ranking officials.
However, Michigan’s highest court ruled unanimously against the wrongful charges, noting state laws “authorize a judge to investigate, subpoena witnesses, and issue arrest warrants.”
“But they do not authorize the judge to issue indictments,” McCormack wrote.
“To this day, the defendants do not know what evidence the prosecution presented to convince the grand jury (i.e., juror) to charge them,” she wrote.
Justice Richard Bernstein concurred, writing separately that Nessel’s office “invoked obscure statutes, specifically to deprive defendants of their statutory right to a preliminary examination.”
When an attorney general authorizes a one-man grand jury, state law grants the right to a preliminary examination that disqualifies the judge who conducted the hearing.
A few of the defendant’s lawyers challenged the indictments, which also applied to Snyder and others, asking for a preliminary examination. However, officials denied the motion, “holding that indicted person have no right to a preliminary examination.”
Snyder’s legal team described the court’s opinion to The Associated Press as “unequivocal and scathing.”
“These prosecutions of Governor Snyder and the other defendants were never about seeking justice for the citizens of Flint,” Snyder’s lawyers told The Associated Press. “Rather, Attorney General Nessel and her political appointee Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud staged a self-interested, vindictive, wasteful and politically motivated prosecution.”
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“The Democrat-majority Michigan Supreme Court has slapped down Dana Nessel’s abuse of power and ruled her political witch hunt illegal,” Tori Sachs, executive director of Michigan Freedom Fund, a non-profit conservative advocacy group, said in a statement. “Dana Nessel’s legal ineptitude cost Michigan taxpayers millions of dollars while she weaponized the judicial system to attack her political opposition.”
Sachs said before Michigan’s Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday, “[it] was the only state in the nation using one-person grand juries to target citizens with criminal charges.”
A report by The Daily Caller reveals the judge who served as a one-person grand juror previously donated to Democrat politicians.
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