American Firebrand
@AmFirebrand
Tucker: “The populist surge of 2016 changed everything. Permanent Washington felt more threatened by American voters than by any foreign adversary. In their panic, our leaders decided to turn the American legal system as well as American intel agencies against their political opponents. They abandoned the ancient principle of equality under the law and replaced it with a loyalty oath.”
https://twitter.com/AmFirebrand/status/1641959703428182017
Jeff Clark
@JeffClarkUS
Since the fact of the indictment has been announced, why can’t we see it?
I can’t think of a rationale for proceeding this way.
Bragg would be at home with former KGB heads in the USSR.
And it reminds me of the fact that there are still secret parts of the search warrant affidavit for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.
I don’t think the Framers wanted the grand jury process to be abused in this way.
Jeff Clark
@JeffClarkUS
The latest news from NBC I’ve seen on this says that the indictment may not be unsealed until President Trump is arraigned on Tuesday.
If that proves true, I wonder if Bragg’s devious thinking here is that he can force Trump to have to sit through a full reading of the indictment as an indignity.
But perhaps Trump’s lawyers have a copy of the document and just have not spoken about it yet that I’ve seen. Then they can waive the right to have the indictment read out to speed the arraignment along.
But take just one step back: America has fallen immeasurably when we are even talking about a politically motivated arraignment of any length.
https://twitter.com/JeffClarkUS/status/1641961501803028481