Leaders can force out reluctant prosecutors and install loyalists to secure charges, even when cases show procedural oddities (single‑signer filings, duplicate indictments, minimal grand‑jury margins). This tactic converts staffing into a direct lever over who gets indicted and when.
— It highlights a concrete mechanism for weaponizing justice via personnel control, signaling reforms should address appointment and removal safeguards as much as charging standards.
Alex Tabarrok
2026.01.12
75% relevant
Tabarrok’s piece warns that legal processes are being used strategically to intimidate and reshape institutions into loyalist bodies — the same mechanism identified in the 'Personnel Swaps Drive Indictments' idea, which documents how staffing and appointment tactics turn prosecution and enforcement into tools of political pressure.
David Dennison
2025.10.16
100% relevant
The piece describes Erik Siebert quitting under pressure, his replacement Lindsay Halligan filing two indictments herself, and only 14 of 23 grand jurors voting to indict Comey.
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