“Grand jury declines to indict Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony”

WaPo: A federal grand jury in D.C. rejected an attempt by the Justice Department to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for the account she gave lawmakers of President Donald Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a grand jury matter. In a brief court appearance Tuesday afternoon, Neville S. Hedley, who introduced himself as the acting senior litigation counsel at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui that the grand jury had not concurred on the proposed indictment. Hedley did not specify the defendant, but the people familiar said he was referring to Hutchison. The failure of the Justice Department to secure the indictment marks the latest rebuke of the law enforcement agency’s efforts to prosecute one of the president’s political enemies. The decision to present a case to federal grand jurors followed years of calls from Trump and his Republican allies for Hutchinson to face legal consequences for providing what they contend was false and damaging testimony about what Trump said and did as his supporters stormed the Capitol that January day. The case was presented to the grand jury by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, in an unusual move for a false-statements investigation, The Washington Post has reported….