“Looks like he’s boxed them up, taped up the box, and sent them to long-term storage,” said Glenn Kirschner.

Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a motion that urged U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to put guardrails in place to protect the possible jurors in Donald Trump’s election-subversion case.

Former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner suggested Smith hadn’t just “taken off the gloves” with the move. It “looks like he’s boxed them up, taped up the box, and sent them to long-term storage,” Kirschner said on a new episode of his “Justice Matters” podcast.

Smith encouraged Chutkan to streamline the jury selection process with a questionnaire for potential jurors, ban their details from being public, and prohibit direct contact between attorneys and jurors.

The motion referred to Republican 2024 front-runner Trump’s attack on social media of a court official in his civil fraud trial in New York, which prompted a judge to slap the former president with a gag order.

      • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 years ago

        No, no: he hasn’t just taken off the gloves. He’s also removed his pants as preamble to fucking trump in the butt, presumably.

    • Nougat@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Kirschner is a bit “extra.” I do watch him pretty regularly, because he does cite source material, and he generally makes good observations. This one is not one of those.

      It’s true that Jack Smith is consistently urging the Court to do something about Trump’s stochastic terrorism. As yet, Judge Chutkan hasn’t done anything. There will be a hearing to address this on Monday, and we’ll find out what happens then. Kirschner misstates this as Judge Chutkan will put a tailored gag order in place, when he should present it as his strong hope.

        • Nougat@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          Justice Engoron in New York moved swiftly to address Trump’s attacking his clerk, although he stopped short of applying actual consequences. Of all the judges presiding over Trump’s many court cases, he’s been the most “find out,” and even he hasn’t really done anything to hold Trump accountable.

          Any other criminal defendant would have had bond revoked and be held in detention pending trial long ago. Trump, on the other hand, crickets.

            • Nougat@kbin.social
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              2 years ago

              Totally fair, I don’t take offense.

              Engoron did fine several Trump attorneys for frivolity, found Trump and his associates liable for fraud with summary judgment, and ruled that the Trump Organization has its business certificates revoked and goes into receivership. Those are most definitely in the world of “find out.”