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Today's Lawfare has an interesting 'human interest' description of part of the process of empaneling the Grand Jury in Fulton County. I say 'human interest' in contradistinction to Lawfare's normal rather dry legalese descriptions of whatever issue they are covering.
In the taster paragraphs I offer below (you can google up the entire Lawfare article, "They'll Be in the Room Where It Happens").....in the tasters you can understand a little bit of the mechanics and the number of citizens that need be winnowed through to get enough to empanel.
The article was written by Lawfare's Fulton County correspondent, Anna Bower, who is familiar with the judges, the process, and the zeitgeist of the region. I offer it to this forum merely as a backgrounder as this development before these two Grand Juries could get white-hot important real fast....if one or both find there is probable cause to indict Don Trump and likely a handful of others.....for election in interference. If that does happen, this Lawfare piece will help you understand the ramping-up to it.
To wit:
"Several hours later, around 2 p.m., McBurney sweeps back into the assembly room to announce that he has settled on a final list of jurors and alternates. He announces the names of the 13 women and 13 men who will serve on “Grand Jury A,” which will sit on Mondays and Tuesday. Then he turns to the 12 women and 14 men who will sit on “Grand Jury B,” which is slated to work on Thursdays and Fridays. Wednesdays will be grand jury free in Fulton County.
As their names are called, the selected jurors move toward the front of the room, providing members of the media with an unobstructed view for the first time all day. They look, I think, like a diverse group: people of various ages, genders, and races. They wear light-wash denim, beige linen slacks, cotton t-shirts, black suits. Some appear excited, others apprehensive. Many of them look bored. They won’t stay bored. Whatever the Trump case may be, it’s not boring.
McBurney wraps up by expounding on the work the grand jurors would undertake during their term of service, and I wonder how many of them even realize what they are doing there, or that they could be asked to decide a monumental question in modern American history: Did a president try to stay in power illegally despite an electoral defeat.
I look at them one more time: Are these the people I would trust to make, or decline to make, that accusation?
They look okay to me.
In the taster paragraphs I offer below (you can google up the entire Lawfare article, "They'll Be in the Room Where It Happens").....in the tasters you can understand a little bit of the mechanics and the number of citizens that need be winnowed through to get enough to empanel.
The article was written by Lawfare's Fulton County correspondent, Anna Bower, who is familiar with the judges, the process, and the zeitgeist of the region. I offer it to this forum merely as a backgrounder as this development before these two Grand Juries could get white-hot important real fast....if one or both find there is probable cause to indict Don Trump and likely a handful of others.....for election in interference. If that does happen, this Lawfare piece will help you understand the ramping-up to it.
To wit:
"Several hours later, around 2 p.m., McBurney sweeps back into the assembly room to announce that he has settled on a final list of jurors and alternates. He announces the names of the 13 women and 13 men who will serve on “Grand Jury A,” which will sit on Mondays and Tuesday. Then he turns to the 12 women and 14 men who will sit on “Grand Jury B,” which is slated to work on Thursdays and Fridays. Wednesdays will be grand jury free in Fulton County.
As their names are called, the selected jurors move toward the front of the room, providing members of the media with an unobstructed view for the first time all day. They look, I think, like a diverse group: people of various ages, genders, and races. They wear light-wash denim, beige linen slacks, cotton t-shirts, black suits. Some appear excited, others apprehensive. Many of them look bored. They won’t stay bored. Whatever the Trump case may be, it’s not boring.
McBurney wraps up by expounding on the work the grand jurors would undertake during their term of service, and I wonder how many of them even realize what they are doing there, or that they could be asked to decide a monumental question in modern American history: Did a president try to stay in power illegally despite an electoral defeat.
I look at them one more time: Are these the people I would trust to make, or decline to make, that accusation?
They look okay to me.
