How the US Justice System Is Being Remade

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Education, Government

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The U.S. justice system is being remade, former prosecutions are being investigated, and key figures are being pardoned. This is being done against the backdrop that weaponization of the justice system allegedly played a role in many of the cases, and it’s possible that, as the investigations continue, many previous convictions could be overturned through pardons.

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0:00.0	The justice system is being remade. Former prosecutions are being investigated and key figures are being pardoned.
0:07.0	This is being done against the backdrop that weaponization of the justice system allegedly played a role in many of the cases.
0:15.0	And it's possible that, as the investigations continue, many previous convictions could be overturned. On a related note,
0:22.7	Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has released declassified documents that suggest
0:28.2	even Americans who were just opposed to COVID mandates could have been deemed potential domestic
0:34.5	violent extremists. And meanwhile, one of the largest conservative organizations in the country
0:40.5	has now been labeled an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. I'm the Epic Times
0:46.5	senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads.
0:57.0	The U.S. justice system, it's all being remade. Big changes taking place.
1:01.0	Former prosecutions are being investigated. Key figures are being pardoned.
1:06.0	And this is being done against the backdrop that weaponization of the justice system, allegedly,
1:12.1	may have played a role in many of the previous cases, especially the last four years.
1:16.6	It's possible that as these investigations continue, a lot of convictions could be overturned.
1:23.0	And this has been raised in many of Trump's pardons, from the Jan Sixers to Christians
1:27.4	who were
1:28.2	prosecuted for protesting outside abortion clinics to his most recent pardon of a former sheriff
1:33.8	who was found guilty of bribery. CBS News said this. President Trump said Monday he is pardoning
1:39.9	Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted of making several businessmen sworn
1:45.9	law enforcement officers in exchange for cash bribes. It says former Culperer County Sheriff Jenkins,
1:52.2	53, was found guilty on fraud and bribery charges and sentenced to 10 years in prison in March.
2:00.4	And as said Jenkins was indicted in 2023 on in prison in March. And it says that Jenkins was indicted in
2:02.6	23 on 16 counts in December. A jury found Jenkins guilty of one counter conspiracy, four
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