A federal grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey any illegal orders from the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The declination is a rebuke of the administration’s efforts to paint the six lawmakers — all of whom served in either the military or intelligence services — as dangerously undermining the president’s authority as commander in chief.
That doesn’t mean it won’t see court it just won’t see criminal court. They’d have a pretty good ftca lawsuit going if anyone chose to push it and I think they certainly should.