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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    241 year ago

    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.

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      131 year ago

      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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      61 year ago

      “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.