Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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“A crock of sh*t” is how one grand juror described the Trump Justice Department’s case against the Broadview Six in newly released transcripts. Prosecutors dropped all charges against Chicago anti-ICE protestors a couple of months ago. Since then, a steady trickle of evidence of prosecutorial misconduct has turned into this week’s deluge in the form of the newly released grand jury transcripts. In this week’s bonus episode exclusively for Slate Plus members, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern talk about the damning transcripts that reveal a Justice Department gone rogue.

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