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D.C. judges and grand jurors push back on Trump policing surge

A federal grand jury refused three times to indict a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent as magistrate judges questioned tactics in other arrests.

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President Donald Trump speaks to the press Aug. 11 from the White House about deploying federal law enforcement agents in Washington to bolster the local police presence. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

President Donald Trump’s surge of federal law enforcement on the streets of D.C. is meeting resistance in the city’s federal courthouse, where magistrate judges have admonished prosecutors for violating defendants’ rights and court rules, and grand jurors have repeatedly refused to issue an indictment.

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