Posted on 03/23/2023 2:58:45 PM PDT by thegagline
The jury that will weigh allegations that former President Donald Trump sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll at trial next month in Manhattan will remain anonymous through the duration of the case, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Judge Lewis Kaplan found that if the identities of the jurors were publicly known, they’d likely face intense media scrutiny as well as harassment and threats by supporters of Trump, 76.
“Indeed, Mr. Trump himself has made critical statements on social media regarding the grand jury foreperson in Atlanta, Georgia, and the jury foreperson in the Roger Stone criminal case,” he wrote.
Kaplan issued the order in response to two news organizations that had requested the jurors’ names be made publicly available for the Manhattan federal trial that’s scheduled to begin on April 25.
His ruling added: “This properly may be viewed in the context of Mr. Trump’s many statements regarding individual judges, the judiciary in general, and other public officials, as well as what reports have characterized as ‘violent rhetoric’ by Mr. Trump including before his presidency.”
Carroll claims Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s and later defamed her in statements he made about it, according to her lawsuit.
Trump has denied wrongdoing.
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That’s my take also.
Give it up. You hate Trump. Everyone is already aware of your thinking. Yawn.
Psycho.
I don’t hate him. He’s just a boring child. Time to elect an adult who can get things done. Trump just runs his mouth. He had his chance and handed the country to Biden.
Like I said, you hate Trump. Evidenced by your non-stop criticism, one of which I am responding to in this post. Talk about running one’s mouth..................
It doesn’t matter. I thought he was great in 2016. But he is his worst enemy. He’s been there done that and time to move on. We know how 80 year olds run the country and it’s not good.
Don’t you just love it when these judges, in their “righteous” efforts to insure the “integrity of the judicial system” (which they have worked feverously to destroy) only do so to attack those they are aligned against. Impartiality is a foreign concept to activist judges.
All jurors for any trial should be anonymous. Otherwise criminals’ cohorts will be able to threaten them or their families with harm if they fail to acquit.
Oh, that was a Chicago PD episode, wasn’t it? Or was it L & O, Special Victims Unit?
So, you believe the 2020 election was fair and square? And Biden WON?
Oh, ok. Thank you for clearing that up.
It is what is reality. Whether cheating or not, Biden is president. Now trump probably would have taken election security more a priority had he known. But alas, it is what it is.
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