[YellowRoseofTx]

This is a proposal?

[Uncle Chip]

Go for it!!! It is definitely needed.

[Sorry screen name in use]

As reported late last night via DecaLogosIntl.org, Stephen Pidgeon, attorney for Broe v. Reed, has officially announced that he has issued a declaration (audio at link) for a national grand jury:

[ozark hilljilly]

The requirements are even stricter than that required of the President!
That said, I could easily qualify for about 99% of them. (I do have a tendency to let a well vocalized “swear word” pass my lips when the occasion calls for it-that might disqualify me.)
Where do you sign up??!! ; )

[Migraine]

This is either a very cool idea, or someone is feeling extremely self-important. Sounds like quasi-government/within-yet-outside-government/cum posse commitatus/extralegal quixotic windmill tilting, and will be perceived as such (if it ever reaches any appreciable levels of public perception at all).

But then, I could be wrong. Hope so.

[IrishPennant]

Can someone explain the line below? It must be too early for me...

...of the fifty several states and of the United States of America

[philman_36]

There shall be 50 members of the Grand Jury with 50 alternates. Candidates are to be selected from a pool of nominees who shall submit their nomination to the nominating committee.
It would seem then that things will be determined from the outset by who the nominating committee is as they will be the ones selecting the panel members. If they're truly an entirely independent body then it shouldn't be an issue. Yet, realistically, how many will actually be independent and how many will actually be partisan? If they've ever voted for candidates in either main party then they've already proven themselves, IMO, to not be independent.

[NTHockey]

“Exhibit intelligence, sound judgment, and good character.”

That excludes all lawyers.

[DugwayDuke]

Grand idea.

Perhaps they might want to google “winter soldiers” or “John Kerry” for some useful tips in how to run these things.