Attorneys for the now-cleared “Broadview Six” defendants are seeking any possible evidence of pressure from White House officials on the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago to secure an indictment against the group of Democratic activists, local elected officials and candidates this past fall.
The defendants, who were indicted in October after attending an immigration protest in the early weeks of the Trump administration’s Chicago-focused Operation Midway Blitz mass deportation campaign, had been set to face trial late last month. But trial was abruptly canceled, and all charges dropped, in the face of alleged prosecutorial misconduct in front of the grand jury.
