WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors in D.C. have racked up at least eight separate rejections from grand juries during the past month. It’s an extraordinary losing streak that has no modern parallel, experts say, and a barometer of the city’s unhappiness with President Donald Trump’s federal surge.

“It’s a remarkably strong signal that people in this community are deeply displeased with the sorts of cases that are being brought and, I think we can assume, the broader federal takeover of local criminal justice that we’ve been witnesses in the last couple of weeks,” University of Virginia School of Law Professor Thomas Frampton said.

The latest rejection, known as a no true bill, came Tuesday, when U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office informed a judge grand jurors had declined to indict D.

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