“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.

  • @[email protected]
    25•1 year ago

    "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.

    • Nougat
      8•1 year ago

      Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed on June 19, 1953.

      • @Dressedlikeapenguin
        2•1 year ago

        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.

    • @Dressedlikeapenguin
      3•1 year ago

      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!