“better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool, than open it and remove all doubt”
Wanna try again?
As a U.S. attorney, Huber has full authority to empanel a grand jury and to file criminal charges. A grand jury can be empaneled anywhere, which means that it could be a group of citizens from deep-red Utah – in the heart of Trump country – instead of the D.C. Swamp that decides whether to hand down indictments for felony prosecution.
“A grand jury can be empaneled anywhere...”
Of course a federal grand jury can be impaneled anywhere, but if you (and the ignorant author of the piece you are citing) had bothered to read the statutes, you would know that a grand jury can only prosecute crimes that were committed in the jurisdiction where they are impaneled.
Here, I’ll save you some time and link you to a more appropriate source to get the relevant knowledge than a journalist, the Handbook for Federal Grand Jurors:
“... the federal grand jury’s function is to determine whether a person shall be tried for a serious federal crime alleged to have been committed within the district where it sits.” (page 2)
“It should be borne in mind that a federal grand jury can take action only upon federal crimes that have been committed within the district in which it has been impaneled.” (page 3)
“District:
The geographical area over which the federal district court where the grand jury sits and the grand jury itself have jurisdiction. The territorial limitations of the district will be explained to the grand jury by the district judge.” (Glossary - Page 8)
http://www.ndd.uscourts.gov/jury/jury_handbook_grand_jurors.pdf
So they can only act with the boundaries of the federal district court where the grand jury is impaneled. There is only one federal district court in Utah, and it covers only the state of Utah:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judicial_district
Therefore any grand jury that Huber impanels in Utah can only charge people for crimes committed in the state of Utah.
Maybe you “wanna try again?”