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The latest example occurred Tuesday, when Justice Department prosecutors told a magistrate judge that a grand jury declined to indict . He is accused of making a death threat against Trump while in police custody on Aug. 17. Dana also told police that he was intoxicated that night.

Grand jurors also refused to hand up an indictment against , who was arrested Aug. 16 in Washington on charges that she made death threats against Trump on social media and during an interview with Secret Service agents. Jones' attorney disclosed the decision in a court filing Monday.

Dana's lawyer, Elizabeth Mullin, said she has never seen anything like this in over 20 years as a public defender in Washington. She said prosecutors are responding to Trump's surge by bringing “weak cases� that don't belong in federal court.

“And the grand juries are seeing through it,� Mullin said. “It's a huge waste in resources.�

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, whom Trump appointed to be the top federal prosecutor for Washington, said a grand jury’s refusal to indict somebody for threatening to kill the president “is the essence of a politicized jury.�

“The system here is broken on many levels,� Pirro said in a statement. “Instead of the outrage that should be engendered by a specific threat to kill the president, the grand jury in DC refuses to even let the judicial process begin. Justice should not depend on politics.�

Last month, a grand jury refused to indict a government attorney who was facing a felony assault charge for at a Customs and Border Protection agent — a confrontation captured on a viral video.

Three grand juries voted separately against indicting a woman accused of outside the city’s jail in July, where she was recording video of the transfer of inmates into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

A grand jury also rejected an indictment against a man who was by a U.S. Park Police officer with the assistance of ºÃÉ«tv Guard members.

Grand jury proceedings are secret, so the reasons for their decisions don't become public. But the string of rebukes has fueled speculation that residents serving on grand juries are using their votes to protest against the White House's surge.

“Grand juries, judges, we will not simply go along with the flow,� U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said during a hearing last week for a surge-related criminal case.

The same courthouse is where hundreds of Trump supporters were charged — and often convicted by juries — with joining a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In January, however, Trump used his clemency powers to erase all of those cases with a stroke of a pen on his first day back in the White House.

Dana was arrested on suspicion of damaging a light fixture at a restaurant. An officer was driving Dana to a police station when he threatened to kill Trump, according to a Secret Service agent's affidavit. The officer's body camera captured Dana saying he was “not going to tolerate fascism� and would “protect the Constitution by any means necessary.�

“And that means killing you, officer, killing the president, killing anyone who stands in the way of our Constitution,� he said, according to the affidavit.

Prosecutors said Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, posted an Aug. 6 message on Facebook that she was “willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea.� When Secret Service agents questioned her on Aug. 15, Jones said she hoped to peacefully remove Trump from office but “will kill him out at the compound if I have to,� . Jones was arrested a day later in Washington, where she joined a protest near the White House.

Jones repeatedly told Secret Service agents that she had no intent to harm anyone, didn't own any weapons and went to Washington to peacefully protest, according to her attorney, assistant federal public defender Mary Manning Petras.