A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

  • athos77
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    I looked at the indictment last night and noticed it included the names of the grand jurors. I dropped my head into my hands, knowing this was inevitable. I don’t understand why the names weren’t reacted.

      • @surewhynotlem
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        701 year ago

        It prevents loading the jury to get a specific outcome. That said, it should come with protection or a delay or something.

        • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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          271 year ago

          Not saying it is, but showing me, a regular citizen, these names convinces me the jury wasn’t loaded? Does the defendant have no role in Grand jury selection?

          • @[email protected]
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            391 year ago

            No, the defendant doesn’t. This isn’t a trial jury, it’s the Fulton County Grand Jury. The GJ sits for an extended period (maybe a month, someone step in and correct me if I’m wrong) and listens to cases brought by the prosecutor. The GJ job is to decide if the prosecutor has enough of a case to indict. It seems in this case, she did.

            • @somethingsnappy
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              201 year ago

              Just to clarify, the sitting grand jury does not then sit on the jury for the trial.

            • vortic
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              That’s generally right. In Fulton County they sit for two months. There were two different grand jurys here, though.

              There was a Special Grand Jury who met for 8 months and investigated the specific crimes related to the Trump case. They issued a report in January detailing all of the evidence that they heard.

              In GA, though, a Special Grand Jury can’t issue an indictment. The report was passed to a normal grand jury who heard all of the evidence, then issued the indictment. That grand jury was first seated on July 11th.

              source

      • athos77
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        251 year ago

        I didn’t know that. I wish they had a process for applying to redact, for cases like this :(

        • peopleproblems
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          Pretty sure grand Jurors are professionals in most if not all common law states.

          A couple of the peoples titles on the list pointed me towards that they are.

          Edit: I’m pretty certain I’m wrong. There’s something else I must be confusing it with

    • @[email protected]
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      511 year ago

      There’s all kinds of laws like this that are super old, and really harmful in modern life. Like name changes having to be published in the paper, and home ownership being public information. Sorry trans people, if you want to legally change your name, you have to be out to everyone! And don’t even think about buying a house if there’s someone you don’t want knowing where you live, like an abusive family member or ex!

      They’re left over from times when information was harder to come by, and they absolutely need to be changed, but our governments are bad at legislating for modern problems

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        331 year ago

        And don’t even think about buying a house

        Well that is a problem that is fading away.

        • @Wooki
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          -391 year ago

          Maybe for you.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Home and land ownership is public in most countries, it’s an important thing to have transparency on.

        • @[email protected]
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          It is actually! I have a friend who’s dad is extremely libertarian (despite having been a marine?), And he bought his house under an LLC for pricacy’s sake. I’m sure it would work for less crazy reasons as well

          • @afraid_of_zombies
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            11 year ago

            Interesting. I wonder if you could buy a home zoned for single family, sell it to a LLC that you run, then rent it out to two families (if one is your own) since it is now commercial rental.

            • @[email protected]
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              From what I’ve read, living in a house you buy yourself makes it lose most of the protection of an LLC, because you have “pierced the corporate veil”. All it really ends up doing is protecting your identity

      • @Katana314
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        21 year ago

        Unfortunately, while you’re citing lots of very valid cases of innocent people being victimized, I also think that the trail of information that follows people is very important for systems of justice.

        Imagine criminals getting away with white collar crime, having changed their name to make it more difficult for people to publicly scrutinize them.

        I can’t quite imagine what protections might make sense to keep trans people safe, and it’s hard for me to think about which group should be prioritized. Of course, ideally, we’d live in a world where anyone retaliating to someone’s gender transition would be headed for a hard time themselves.

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          -11 year ago

          In that case our government has failed to do this. Who owns your mortgage? It was repackaged into a mortgage backed security with thousands of owners. Who owns that commercial property that has been sitting idle for thirty years? Owned by nested shell companies.

          Another reason why mortgaged backed securities should be criminalized.

        • @[email protected]
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          121 year ago

          Well, I hope the state is prepared to spend a shitton of money on protecting these people. Trump supporters aren’t the most stable of people.

        • @RojoSanIchiban
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          21 year ago

          See: FISA

          Basically the “kernel of truth” that gave us deep state idiocy.

  • @MicroWaveOP
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    1551 year ago

    “It’s becoming all too commonplace to see everyday citizens performing necessary functions for our democracy being targeted with violent threats by Trump-supporting extremists," Jones said. "The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats — which serve to inspire real-world political violence— is shameful.

    And there’s also this:

    Yesterday — after Trump posted on his social media website that authorities were going “after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!” — Advance Democracy noted that Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        Uh, I think those that are inclined have already acknowledged this. The others are very likely a lost cause, if this recent spate of reporting hasn’t convinced them that Trump is a freaking manipulator and crook. Where do we go from here? I don’t know how so many extremists could possibly just, you know, stop being so extreme. Naively, a civil war could fix the issue, but that is the last thing we need–war is never the answer.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      Advance Democracy noted that Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

      Classy as ever

      • Raging LibTarg
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        The instant I saw the word “RIGGERS” in his bitch ass post yesterday, I knew exactly what it actually meant. Just more dog whistling fog horn blasting racism from The Cheeto Mussolini. 😡

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      201 year ago

      Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

      How to get your ass kicked by A/V professionals, 3D animators, and pirates… all in one fell swoop!

    • @grue
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      41 year ago

      "The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats — which serve to inspire real-world political violence— is shameful.

      Charge every Republican politician who fails to publicly denounce them as an accessory to whatever crimes get committed against these grand jurors.

  • @[email protected]
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    701 year ago

    Sadly, predictable.

    Equally sad and Equally predictable, this (and the ensuing harrassment) will have the approval of the Republican party.

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    • @just_another_person
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      321 year ago

      Can you imagine what kind of world or country we could have if all these MAGA-turds focused their energy on constructive things rather than DEstructive? It’s so sad.

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      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        Seems like most politicians want us fighting right vs left, rather than bottom vs top. And a scary number of people just eat that shit up

      • SirStumps
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        31 year ago

        Unfortunately any extremist views and actions seem only to cause harm. If that energy was focused towards more helpful notions we would be in paradise by now.

  • @DandomRude
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    When someone quite obviously rejects both the electoral system and the legal system unless they work to his advantage, one must surely get the impression that this person simply has no interest in democracy at all.

    • @Fuck_u_spez_
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      I’m starting to get the feeling that this guy might not be the best choice for president.

      • @DandomRude
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        61 year ago

        Well, who would have thought that this hypothetical guy, let’s call him Tronald Drump, would turn out to be such a menace? Totally unexpected…

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Uh, I feel like you’re not considering the fact that he has an ® next to his name? Source: Red states that are near the bottom in every metric for quality-of-life.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      261 year ago

      Even easier: just reassign the guys from his detail to protect those people, until there’s nobody left to cover his entourage.

      • @[email protected]
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        171 year ago

        Give the people Trump trusts with his life to the people he likely wants to be silenced? Good idea.

        • @like47ninjas
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          11 year ago

          Better yet, redeploy the ones on Trump and put new ones on the threatened!

          You know, shuffle the cards around, same impact.

  • Obinice
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    561 year ago

    Extremist fascists gonna fascist.

  • @[email protected]
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    351 year ago

    If those were BLM activists, they’d have a SWAT team breaking down their door within minutes of posting this.

  • El Barto
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    311 year ago

    This could be either a great time to be an FBI agent - or the worst time.

    • yukichigai
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      Imagine becoming a fed because you want to uphold the law and chase down bad guys, figuring you’re going to be tracking down drug dealers and human traffickers and mafia goons, and instead you get tasked with running down Karen and Cletus who decided to firebomb a house based on something they read on RealTruthPatriotNewsDaily-dot-net.

        • @Protoknuckles
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          111 year ago

          Just heavy sighing, the sound of liquor being poured into a glass at 9am and every so often, a truly exasperated “fuuuuuuuuuck!”

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          31 year ago

          The FBI agents I feel for are the ones that have to go on sites like 4chan or whatever other social media sites the rightwing thinks is safe.

          F4 Not a crime, not a crime, not a crime, not a crime

          F4 Not a crime, not a crime, not a crime, not a crime

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          F4 Not a crime, not a crime, not a crime, not a crime

          F4 Not a crime, not a crime, not a crime, not a crime

          F4 Wait! Ok never mind. Not a crime…

          Then once a week they finally get Jethro or Jayden the basement dweller.

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        81 year ago

        A guy I work with has a masters in engineering degree, graduated with honors, went to a school that is world known for engineer was telling me how he spent two days sorting out the parts numbering scheme in the database. He has to do it twice because upper management changed their mind after he finished the first time.

        Your dreams and mileage may vary.

          • @afraid_of_zombies
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            11 year ago

            Mechanical. Also WTF how is that a degree? Who in their goddamn mind would study this!?

  • @Smacks
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    301 year ago

    Everyone involved in this case should have 24/7 protection. This is probably gonna get messy

  • @Syrc
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    281 year ago

    Completely normal behavior for peaceful supporters of a law-abiding citizen. Who wouldn’t do some friendly doxxing to support their absolutely innocent leader.

  • ryan213
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    261 year ago

    So… What happens next?

    • 0110010001100010
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      Unfortunately, probably someone getting hurt or killed. To the GQP the political violence is a feature, not a bug. I hope I’m wrong.

        • @[email protected]
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          Sadly, it reminds me of something I read in a book about a series of event’s when a certain person became reelected in europe in the 30s-40s.