The Justice Department has taken evidence against Cassidy Hutchinson to a grand jury. Will she be indicted by Oct 23?
62% of users predicted NO — the community got this one right. 8 predictions cast.
The Justice Department's effort to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide whose 2022 testimony to the House January 6 committee implicated Donald Trump, had not produced an indictment as of October 23. Reporting beginning October 8-9 said the department's Civil Rights Division presented evidence to a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., examining whether Hutchinson lied to Congress, with additional witnesses expected later in October. Hutchinson had not been subpoenaed to testify before that grand jury, and no charging document had been filed by the deadline.
The push followed pressure from Republican lawmakers and reporting that former Attorney General Pam Bondi pursued the case amid scrutiny of her own position. A grand jury indictment requires prosecutors to present sufficient evidence and win a vote from jurors, a process that can run for weeks with no fixed deadline, and the Justice Department declined, as is its practice, to confirm or deny details of an ongoing investigation.
The slow pace left the matter unresolved through the question's window. Community forecasters largely anticipated this outcome: only 38% put the odds of an indictment by October 23 at "yes," and the majority proved correct.