Overview

• A D.C. grand jury repeatedly refused to indict in several alleged assaults on federal agents, including the Sean Charles Dunn “Subway sandwich” case that prosecutors reduced to a misdemeanor.
• Judges issued sharp rebukes of government actions, with one calling a pre-arrest search “the most illegal” he had seen and another describing an arrest as lacking “basic human dignity.”
• Pirro’s office acknowledged severe shortages — about 90 prosecutors and 60 investigators or paralegals — and said military lawyers have been enlisted to fill gaps.
• D.C. federal courts reported unprecedented strain, with days seeing roughly 125 defendants and some trials postponed to 2027 as defense attorneys and civil rights groups mount challenges.
• Following the Aug. 11 emergency declaration, the administration deployed hundreds of federal agents and National Guard personnel and reported more than 1,000 arrests, while Pirro defended the operation on Fox News as necessary given ongoing violence.