{"id":18873,"date":"2026-02-11T19:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-jason-crow-asks-pirro-to-preserve-evidence-related-to-failed-indictment\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:31:42","slug":"rep-jason-crow-asks-pirro-to-preserve-evidence-related-to-failed-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-jason-crow-asks-pirro-to-preserve-evidence-related-to-failed-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Jason Crow asks Pirro to preserve evidence related to failed indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Wednesday demanded U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro preserve all evidence related to her unsuccessful effort to bring charges against him and five other Democratic lawmakers.<\/p>\n

The request comes a day after Pirro\u2019s office failed to obtain a criminal indictment<\/u><\/a> against the lawmakers for putting out a video last year urging military personnel not to carry out illegal orders.<\/p>\n

In a letter sent Wednesday to Pirro\u2019s office, Abbe Lowell, Crow\u2019s attorney, called the effort to indict Crow and the other Democrats involved in the video \u201ca breathtaking and unprecedented level of prosecutorial overreach and misuse of power.\u201d Lowell, who has represented a wide swath of President Donald Trump\u2019s enemies<\/u><\/a> in the last year, also put Pirro and other federal prosecutors \u201con notice\u201d of the possible legal ramifications for failing to preserve evidence in the case or taking further action to pursue the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s abuse of America\u2019s justice system is chilling and indefensible,\u201d Lowell wrote in the letter<\/a>. \u201cWhat\u2019s perhaps most surprising is not that your effort to secure a grand jury indictment failed, but that you even tried. Americans are paying attention to your gross abuses of power and demanding accountability.<\/p>\n

Pirro’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Pirro and other prosecutors in the Trump administration have on several occasions struggled to secure indictments against several of the president\u2019s political foes, including New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/u><\/a> and former FBI Director James Comey<\/u><\/a>. A grand jury rejecting indictments is an exceedingly rare outcome in federal cases, as they are tasked only with determining whether the Justice Department has brought a plausible case, although the Trump administration has faced an unusual number of failures in liberal areas like New York and the D.C. area.<\/p>\n

Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, whom federal prosecutors also attempted to indict in relation to the video, decried the move from Pirro\u2019s office at a Wednesday press conference, with Kelly calling it an effort \u201cto abuse power in order to silence and intimidate anyone who disagrees with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe baseless and absurd allegations by Donald Trump, followed by your carrying out of the President\u2019s political retribution campaign has already gone too far, and are evidence of yet another abuse of power directed at those who dare speak out and criticize this Administration,\u201d Lowell wrote in the letter, which was first reported by CBS News<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump, in the wake of the video\u2019s release in November 2025, repeatedly called for the lawmakers to face arrest and trial<\/u><\/a> for what he called \u201cSEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!\u201d The president later clarified that he was \u201cnot threatening death\u201d against the Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Wednesday demanded U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro preserve all evidence related to her unsuccessful effort to bring charges against him and five other Democratic lawmakers. The request comes a day after Pirro\u2019s office failed to obtain a criminal indictment against the lawmakers for putting out a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}