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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
This seems like common sense when Trump has threatened multiple judges and their families already.
The douche baby dodged his pedo rape case by threatening the victim and her mother too.
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"While arguing against the motion by Trump’s lawyers to delay the May 20 trial, special counsel Jack Smith’s lawyers assured they’re ready to go and that such a delay isn’t necessary, unsurprisingly. But they also said they are ready to prove something significant that, to this point, has remained shrouded and the subject of much speculation: why Trump allegedly took and kept the documents.”
"The government apparently thinks it knows ‘what Trump intended’ with the documents. And it’s signaling that it plans to prove that intent.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/10/trump-classified-documents-motive/
If he sold, or even attempted, or even offered, to sell these documents for gain to anyone at all, he really needs to feel the full pain & consequences of a traitor to his country. Any lengthy prison sentence would be too light but he really needs to be made an example of. Throw the book at him.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed on June 19, 1953.
Roy Cohn was a prosecutor in that case, then went on to be Trump’s mentor… Now, this could be the most ironic event ever. I think it could go a long way in repairing the improper understanding of “ironic”, á la Alanis Morisette.
Make a cudgel out of the book, hit him repeatedly about the head and shoulders. Finish him with a combo shot to the gut (to double him over) and then an upper cut blow to knock him out for good!
Shoryuken!
FINISH HIM!!!
The metaphor was so strained I wasn’t sure if it meant he was being harder or softer on Trump. Like there is a metaphorical ‘take off the gloves’ but if they’re being FedEx’d to your grandma at some point that represents you giving up on the gloves for good and thus metaphorically the fight entirely.
You’re exactly right. The metaphor was so strained that the resulting broth was perfectly clarified and became the base of a delicious consommé.
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“Taking the gloves off” is a boxing metaphor that means you’re about to pummel someone badly by disregarding any rules of engagement. He followed that up with, I don’t know, an archivist metaphor? Really weird.
Some interesting wrinkles:
Everything that he outlines per this article is literally just enforcement of the rules. The jury is not to be prejudiced or intimidated, which should be obvious, and therefore these limits are already in place.
The only thing he asks for is to enforce these more strictly, and considering all the comments Trump already made, that’s not far fetched. No one here is thinking he is “taking off the gloves”, this is just a very self-service view.
Also interesting: Jack Smith used to be impartial when he investigated the events surrounding this case. Considering he’s moving forward with the case and a lot of confidence in public, I can only imagine the types of evidence he has seen and marked for discovery.
If I’m being honest I would have hesitation being a juror in this kind of trial for the exact reasons the special prosecutor is talking about.
I would love to be a juror in that trial. If soldiers can give their lives fighting for our country, this sort of civic duty seems like the least I could do.
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Recognizing your solid points: it is because this case is so high profile that you can continue to find jurors. People will be willing to become jurors even if it means they become martyrs because this would fix them on the right side of history.
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