The "Broadview six" were six people charged with conspiracy to obstruct federal agents. They allegedly surrounded a car and the allegations claimed they tried to intimidate ICE agents inside. Many were local Chicago politicians.

The Broadway six were reduced to four when the DOJ dropped charges on two of them. Then the felony conspiracy charges were dropped for the remaining leaving only misdemeanor charges. Today, the DOJ dropped all the remaining charges, with prejudice, against all of them.

The reason is prosecutorial misconduct before the grand jury that indicted them. It was revealed the first grand jury refused to indict. Technically, prosecutors can seek indictment from another grand jury but that in itself is irregular and suspect. They did anyway, and the second grand jury indicted.

Today it was revealed prosecutors improperly "vouched" for the strength of their case before that second grand jury. They suggested to the grand jury that they had stronger evidence than shown the grand jury and that the grand jury could indict on that basis. That's wrong. A grand jury is bound by oath to indict based only on the actual evidence presented to it, not prosecutor promises that better evidence exists that the grand jury is not shown.

It gets worse. A growingly suspicious judge asked to see the grand jury transcripts, which are normally secret. When the prosecutors presented the transcripts they redacted the pages with illegal vouching. The judge sniffed it out and ordered a hearing today where all prosecutors involved in the redactions must be present.

At that hearing the prosecutors suddenly announced they were dropping the entire case with prejudice. The hearing today revealed yet more evidence of stunning levels of prosecutorial misconduct.

-Prosecutors engaged in grand jury forum shopping. Prosecutors kicked out grand jurors who disagreed with their case.

-Prosecutors did not disclose to the public, to the defense, or to second grand jury that the first grand jury had returned a no true bill against them.

-At the hearing today the judge stated she had reviewed, in her career, thousands of pages of grand jury transcripts. She had never seen anything worse than this.

-The judge left open the possibility of sanctions against the prosecutors.

This is a clear case of provable DOJ weaponization against political opponents. Will the former defendants in this case qualify to payment under the Trump weaponization settlement slush fund? [I think you know the answer to that question].