"You mean like a Grand Jury Foreman talking about what went on in the Grand Jury? Not only was that dangerous and stupid, it's illegal."--oldedude
No, Emily Kohrs did not say or do anything illegal. Nor will it be grounds for trial dismissal although Trump's lawyers will probably try.
The special grand jury of which Ms. Kohrs was the foreperson, was discharged last month. Judge Robert C.I. McBurney of Fulton County Superior Court, who is handling the case, has not barred the jurors from talking to reporters, but has sought to limit what they discuss — in particular when it comes to describing their deliberations. She studiously avoided discussing deliberations.
Special grand juries in Georgia do not have indictment powers. That Georgia jury was an investigative grand jury. Complaining that the investigative grand jury concluded laws were broken, is like a criminal defendant complaining that the police investigators biased the jury against him by concluding he broke the law.
It's a preposterous argument to claim that the potential jury pool in Trump's election tampering trial is poisoned because of the broad hints that Ms. Kohrs made. It was already obvious to those of us in the fact-based world that Trump was attempting to undermine the election. Trump and his lawyers are supposedly worried that Ms. Kohrs said among other things she laughed out loud when Trump posted on his Truth Social that he was "completely exonerated".
Trump and his lawyers have reason to worry to about information that has been made public. But it's not anything Kohrs said explicitly or implicitly. It's that "perfect phone call" that Trump made pressuring Brad Raffensperger to "find" 11,870 votes. Trump and gang of weirdos who have been claiming the election was rigged aren't helping his defense any.
