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37. In order to move forward to "bring charges"

they have to empanel a federal grand jury (because DOJ is not a police department with cops who were "in the room" to catch the perps in the act and thus could write up a report of those criminal acts as "witnesses" to the alleged crime(s) being committed).

Then they present what evidence they have to that jury (e.g., witness statements, photographs and/or video/audio recordings obtained, correspondence exchanged between individuals like emails, texts, printed memos/letters, etc), and then the jury will need to agree about what can be "charged", resulting indictments. Once the indictments go out, then stuff happens (arraignment) that leads to pleas, which would then result in either a trial (if the defendant pleads "not guilty" ) or other types of agreements/judgements without a need for a trial. Sometimes the grand jury doesn't find enough to bring about any charges and they decline to indict.

I think in the cases with the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, they could probably use the same D.C. grand jury but in this case, it would need a brand new group.

Here is what the process is (just found it and it is informative how they wrote it up) - starting here - https://www.justice.gov/usao/justice-101/investigation and then leading to the meat here - https://www.justice.gov/usao/justice-101/charging