"But she gave the government a chance to submit written documents opposing dismissal of all charges."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-cliven-bund-charges-20180108-story.html

Note carefully, though, that the reason for the mistrial ruling was that federal prosecutors willfully withheld evidence. That's bone-simple criminal discovery practice: The government has to share everything it finds with the defense, whether the prosecution uses it or not.

The government can appeal the ruling and possibly revive the prosecution, but they'll have to clear that hurdle.

The outlaw Bundys can illegally graze on federal land for years, take over and trash/damage federal property, shoot guns at federal agents, and get off completely free with no consequences. And yet Native Americans and their allies, trying to protect their own land from a poisonous pipeline built by a private company, a pipeline that will inevitably leak and thus permanently damage their water and land, have law enforcement and private security harassing and shooting at them, siccing dogs on them and their children, shooting tear gas and mace at them, hauling them up in court on trumped-up charges from racist, overzealous prosecutors who also tried to shut down and charge national journalists. What the fuck is wrong with this picture?

You're okay with a prosecutor willfully withholding evidence and then playing dumb about it?

I'm disgusted at the prosecutorial actions here, especially since there was more than enough evidence to convict Bundy without engaging in such shenanigans.

But where is the condemnation of the gross misconduct of the prosecutors and judges and law enforcement in the case of Native American No DAPL protestors, who, unlike the damned Bundy's, did nothing wrong and had every right to try to keep the pipeline off of their land?