2026年2月22日 / 美国东部时间晚上8:00 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
针对特朗普政府被指利用司法部”武器化”打击政治批评者的一系列投诉，美国全国性刑事辩护律师组织推出了一款工具，用于追踪和绘制这一”武器”的部署情况。
美国刑事辩护律师协会发布了一个交互式追踪工具，使律师和公民能够查阅特朗普第二任期第一年中司法部发起的一些有争议、不寻常或未成功的起诉案例。
该在线工具由一群律师和法律专业人士无偿支持开发，收录了特朗普政府司法部的一些显著失败案例。
地图功能显示，大陪审团驳回司法部对特朗普政府批评者、民主党公职人员或抗议者提出起诉的案件数量正在上升。
这些案例包括所谓的”三明治投掷者”案，2025年一名男子向联邦探员投掷三明治，特朗普政府试图对其刑事起诉，但华盛顿特区大陪审团予以驳回。
该工具旨在供辩护律师使用和分享，以监控全国范围内的争议案件，并邀请他们提交案例或从中学习。
“发生的事情如此不寻常，我认为有必要让公众知晓，”参与项目监督的华盛顿特区律师史蒂文·萨尔基(Steven Salky)表示。
“我认为这是帮助辩护律师——特别是联邦辩护律师——进行案件辩护的好方法，”萨尔基说。
明尼阿波利斯市美国刑事辩护律师协会主席安德鲁·比雷尔(Andrew Birrell)在宣布推出在线工具时表示：”《权利法案》不是礼貌的建议，而是抵御暴政的盾牌。”
“从中西部到海岸的法庭上，我们看到的是对将刑法用作政治报复工具这一理念的根本、正当的拒绝，”比雷尔说，”陪审员们看穿了这些’新颖’但明显站不住脚的理论。他们提醒政府，人民——而非检察官——在我们的司法系统中拥有最终权力。”
追踪器还包含司法部被指控”武器化选择法院”的案例。例如，为了在弗吉尼亚州起诉纽约总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯(Letitia James)，司法部在三个不同城市召集了大陪审团：亚历山大、里士满和诺福克。追踪器通过美国可搜索地图上叠加的参考点，直观展示了弗吉尼亚州的情况。
美国刑事辩护律师协会在推出该工具时表示，其网络数据库提供”按州划分的追踪案件视觉分解和新兴执法趋势”。该组织试图帮助律师筛选全国范围内的案件，使其能够通过所谓行为、法院、结果和其他案件特征进行搜索。美国刑事辩护律师协会称，其工具将提供关键文件和司法裁决的查阅渠道，”以支持对新颖、宽泛和激进理论的有效辩护”。
对于记者询问新追踪工具的评论请求，司法部发言人回应称：”我们尊重司法程序和陪审员作为证据公正仲裁者的角色——无论结果如何——我们不会因任何因素而放弃保护美国人民安全的使命。”
新数据库中统计的大陪审团不起诉案件数量（包括本月特朗普政府试图起诉六名民主党国会议员的争议案件）在联邦刑事司法系统历史上是前所未有的。
截至周日，该仍在不断扩展的数据库已包含11起司法部未成功起诉的案件。其中几起案件已被驳回，司法部正在华盛顿特区高等法院对另外两起案件提起诉讼，而在针对詹姆斯的案件中，政府已提交上诉通知。
2025年离职的前司法部检察官布伦丹·巴卢(Brendan Ballou)告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻：”这一追踪器的存在本身就证明了司法部信誉的崩溃——曾经极为罕见的不起诉如今已屡见不鲜。这是一项重要工作，这些信息将帮助未来成为政治对手的人证明自己遭到了报复性起诉。”
曾代表举报人、并因报复被特朗普政府短暂剥夺安全许可的国家安全律师马克·扎伊德(Mark Zaid)表示，新网络工具揭示了司法部进行报复的广泛企图。
“全国大陪审团对特朗普政府将司法部武器化的反抗，无可辩驳地证明了美国大部分地区宁愿选择法治，而非卑劣的报复议程，”扎伊德说。
Defense attorneys build mapping tool to track Justice Dept. “weaponization”
February 22, 2026 / 8:00 PM EST / CBS News
In response to a wave of complaints that the Trump administration is weaponizing the Justice Department against political critics, a national group of defense attorneys has launched a tool to track and map where that “weapon” has been deployed.
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has posted an interactive tracking tool to enable attorneys and citizens to check for some of the controversial, unusual or unsuccessful attempted prosecutions by the Justice Department in the first year of Trump’s second term.
The online tool, which is being supported pro bono by a group of attorneys and legal professionals, includes some of the notable misfires by the Trump Justice Department.
The mapping feature shows the rising number of cases in which grand juries rejected the Justice Department’s attempts to obtain indictments against Trump administration critics, Democratic public officials or protesters.
The cases featured include the so-called “sandwich thrower” case, in which a Washington, D.C., grand jury rejected an attempt by the Trump administration to criminally indict a man who tossed a sandwich at a federal agent in 2025.
The tool is designed to be used and shared by defense attorneys to monitor for controversial cases nationwide and asks them to contribute cases or learn from any examples.
“What has been happening is so unusual and different that I felt that it needed to be brought to the public’s attention,” said Steven Salky, a D.C. attorney who’s helping to oversee the project.
“I thought that this was a good way to help defense lawyers — particularly federal defenders — defend cases,” Salky said.
“The Bill of Rights wasn’t written to be a polite suggestion; it was written to be a shield against tyranny,” said NACDL President Andrew Birrell of Minneapolis, in announcing the online tool.
“What we are seeing in courtrooms from the Midwest to the coasts is a fundamental, righteous rejection of the idea that criminal law can be used as a tool for political retribution,” Birell said. “Jurors are seeing through these ‘novel’ and transparently thin theories. They are reminding this government that the people — not the prosecutors — hold the ultimate power in our justice system.”
The tracker also contains cases in which the Justice Department was accused of “weaponized forum shopping.” In attempting to secure an indictment in Virginia against New York Attorney General Letitia James, for example, the department convened grand juries in three different cities: Alexandria, Richmond and Norfolk. The tracker illustrates references superimposed on Virginia inside a searchable map of the nation.
NACDL said in rolling out the tool that its web database provides a “state-by-state visual breakdown of tracked cases and emerging enforcement trends.” The group is trying to help attorneys filter through cases nationwide, enabling them to search by alleged conduct, court, outcome and other case features. NACDL says its tool will provide access to key filings and judicial rulings “to support effective advocacy against novel, expansive, and aggressive theories.”
A Justice Department spokesperson, in response to a request for comment about the new tracking tool, said, “We respect the judicial process and jurors’ role as impartial arbiters of evidence — regardless of what the results may be — and will not be deterred or distracted from keeping the American people safe.”
The number of failed grand jury indictments tallied in the new database, including a controversial attempt by the Trump administration to prosecute six Democratic members of Congress this month, is unique in the history of the federal criminal justice system.
A search of the database, which is continuing to be expanded, by Sunday contained 11 prosecutions in which the Justice Department failed to secure an indictment. Several of the cases were dismissed, the department is pursuing charges in the D.C. Superior Court in a couple of cases and in one — the case against James — the government has filed a notice of appeal.
Former Justice Department prosecutor Brendan Ballou, who left the agency in 2025, told CBS News, “The fact that this tracker needs to exist speaks to the imploding credibility of the Department of Justice, where no bills were once extraordinarily rare. This is important work, and the information will help political opponents targeted in the future argue that they are being vindictively prosecuted.”
Mark Zaid, a national security attorney who has represented whistleblowers and briefly had his security clearance stripped in retribution by the Trump administration, said the new web tool reveals the Justice Department’s broad effort at retribution.
“The rebellion by grand juries across the country against the Trump administration’s political weaponization of the Department of Justice is unequivocal proof that large swaths of America prefer the rule of law over petty retaliatory agendas,” Zaid said.
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