Keeping the names of jurors confidential is a huge priority, even in regular little ol’ trials. Trial cameras (there would probably only be a pool camera, if that) cannot film them, nor can anyone refer to them except as their juror number.
I expect these people will be truly sequestered if it comes to a jury trial, meaning live away from home and under constant surveillance of bailiffs during the trial. It would complicate jury selection a lot. Many people will be reluctant to serve because of their understandable fears and the disruption to their daily lives.
The sad thing is, it would be virtually impossible to protect their identities. A lot of people have access to their information (judge, staff, attorneys, the attorneys’ staff, defendant, etc.). Someone is likely to leak.
I suppose it’s too much to hope that Chump could get the death penalty for treason over this. But if this were the 1950s, he’d be strapped into the gas chamber right along with Julius and Ethel.
That’s exactly what was going through my mind. All it takes is one Zealot for the Cause to blow everything sky-high; I would be terrified if I were on the jury.
It’s against our rules to wish death on someone. Let’s not go down this road. Thanks.
ETA: Mod note rescinded. After @GreysonCarlisle brought it up in ATMB, I reviewed the rule and realized it applies only to wishing death on other posters.
That’s not remotely what the issue is. The issue is that these are documents at the highest level of security out there. That means that their getting out is considered a threat to national security. And Trump took them, put them in a low security location (at best). He put the whole country at risk.
And, of course, the only rational reason to take them would be if you planned on selling them or use them as blackmail, and Trump is exactly the sort of person who would do that.
People really just don’t understand how big a deal it is. Even if he had declassified them, it would be a big deal. It just would be harder to prosecute. Trump put our country at risk.
If it had been “the FBI better have the goods”, that would have been a fair statement of the situation. Couching it in partisan terms is the whole point for the Republicans, that way they don’t have to confront the fact that there were probably a whole lot of Republicans in the loop in DoJ and the FBI who were part of this decision.
Eh, you can build a SCIF out of a shipping container. I know a guy who used one in Afghanistan that was basically an enlarged safe. It’s a good bet that GWB had one at his Texas ranch. You’d want one near anywhere the President is going to be for more than a day or two.
The key is that they would have to decommission the SCIF once the president leaves office, since he would no longer have any need or ability to use it.
Well to each their own but I’m also a fan of that show and I’d gladly make that trade, especially since the BCS finale is tomorrow. Hell, if the BCS finale had to be locked in a vault beside that Wu-Tang Clan album in exchange for Trump going down, I wouldn’t be thrilled about it but I’d take it.
My dream scenario is that the Republican powers-that-be are through with Trump and nominate DeSantis; but Trump in his fury runs a 3rd party campaign and takes his MAGAts with him.