Asks Aaron Blake (WaPo).
She has provided a window into which witnesses were cracking jokes, whether they seemed happy to be there (Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp did not) and how forthcoming they were. She noted that she swore in a witness while holding a Ninja Turtle Popsicle....
When the New York Times asked Kohrs whether the special grand jury recommended charging Trump, she said, “You’re not going to be shocked. It’s not rocket science.”
She added: “It is not going to be some giant plot twist. You probably have a fair idea of what may be in there. I’m trying very hard to say that delicately.”
On the same topic, she told CNN: “We definitely heard a lot about former president Trump, and we definitely discussed him a lot in the room. And I’ll say that, uh, when this list comes out, you wouldn’t, there are no major plot twists waiting for you.”
She said she heard multiple phone calls featuring Trump’s voice. She told NBC News that the special grand jury recommended indictments for more than a dozen people and that the list “might” include Trump.
When the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted Trump claimed the initial portion of the report had exonerated him, Kohrs responded: “Did he really say that? Oh, that’s fantastic. That’s phenomenal. I love it.”
You only need to watch her CNN interview to get a sense for how Kohrs seems to be having fun with her 15 minutes of fame. (Kohrs has not responded to a request for comment.)...
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It certainly seems so….
Are forepeople elected to that position by the other jurors in a special grand jury?
The impartiality! AMAZING!
The walls are closing in.
I always knew a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich. I never knew they also empaneled them.
Jesus H Mary and Joseph. This country is breaking down so bad, and it isn't about Trump. It's this total decay of our institutions, the transformation of all of our cherished traditions into a circus. These cheap game show theatrics just further undermine any respect we're supposed to have for the rule of law and the solemnity of the grand jury process.
It really is time for us to seriously talk about a National Divorce and the dissolution of the United States.
1st takes can be the best: "The USA is very proud of you!!"
Just another fame whore.
Her complete unseriousness aside, going around saying "they've got to indict somebody for something!" is basically a pret-a-porter motion to dismiss.
(But, returning to her unseriousness, what the heck were the other jurors thinking electing her foreperson?)
(Perhaps she bewitched them?)
Holy shit how the media misses Trump. Sad!
Witch hunt from a clown car I guess.
So much for the solemn process of justice.
She has an electric-powered broomstick that one... :)
Amazing to say how ever since DJT favored Israel so much so many times, he is now being attacked gleefully like the Jews were in 1930s Nazi Germany. There is a price to pay for loving the Jews.
I saw a video of this juvenile earlier. What a sorry state we are in.
So ... Is she trolling for a post-grand-jury book deal or maybe a slot on CNN?
WTF! I’d always understood grand jury proceedings were to remain secret. If this batshit crazy person was elected as jury foreman, what does that say about the jurors? Nothing positive, I suspect.
I'm sure the glee and smirking were totally unrelated to her politics... Just sure.
If you look in the Georgia Grand Jury handbook, the jurors and foreperson take an oath making them public officers of the State's Superior Court. Keeping what happens on their Grand Jury a secret is part of that Oath.
The handbook also states that breaking their oath can incur a 1 to 5 year prison sentence and/or up to a $1000 fine.
Fair and impartial something something…
"See how high she flyyyys..."
Kohrs thought highly of Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony. That's about all I need to know about the quality of this grand jury.
I watched her interviews and this woman is nuts. I can't wait to read all about her polycule.
This woman publicly broke more laws this weekend than Trump did his entire life.
We are a clown country, no doubt about it.
Serious question for law professor (Emerita) Althouse and for the lawyers who comment here. Why has this woman not been slapped with contempt of court by the judge?
I believe she has committed a crime by commenting on the grand jury proceedings
I'm confident that prosecutorial discretion will protect the forepersonatrix(tricks?) from prosecution.
Her performance is yet more evidence that societal norms are being shredded as the Left tastes conquest. When that comes, we'll get no mercy.
She was interviewed for the news radio broadcast here in Georgia this morning. She sounded starstruck.
I wonder what her Twitter name is. This woman was probably active on social media throughout. Heck, she might even have her own blog.
Re the foreman: In NYS Supreme Courts (the lowest state court, not the highest), the foreman position is typically occupied by the first juror taken during the voir dire. Juror #1 becomes the foreman, and then the rest of the jury #2-12 plus 2 alternates. No one is elected (though there must be situations where Juror #1 declines to serve as foreman and Juror #2 assumes the position).
WTF! I’d always understood grand jury proceedings were to remain secret.
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is it violation of secrecy to even claim 'I was on grand-jury'
[it is well known that 3 or 9 or 12 or n can keep the secret if only one is left alive at the end >>> so happy for others on the jury are still alive and kicking]
I find grand juries, as a check on prosecutorial discretion, a great idea in the efforts to check government powers. It's up there with the presumption of innocence, imho.
To hear how the men who came up with these self-goverment schemes are talked and thought about today doesn't give me much hope for the American experiment.
The new Salem Witch Trials with Emily Kohrs playing the role of Elizabeth Hubbard! I briefly looked at the interview with Ms. Kohrs and noted her gleefulness at sharing limited information. Did she know that she was potentially violating her oath as a member of a grand jury? Was she encouraged to do so by a member of the DA's office? Is she even mildly aware that her sharing of grand jury data puts the jurisprudence system in Georgia at risk of being viewed as corrupt? I bet Elizabeth Hubbard had fun too back in 1692.
Grand jury testimony is supposed to be secret forever, unless specifically unsealed for some reason. Why would you have a grand juror on the news to discuss something that they literally cannot discuss? It makes sense with a petit juror as they are free to talk once the trial is over. Are they even sure this is one of the grand jurors? This almost feels like trolling.
For the record, it is difficult to get excused from a grand jury. Since the stakes are lower than a trial, the lawyers cannot challenge a juror. You need one of the basic excuses: too old, too ill, military, an important job that cannot be replaced easily, caretaker, financial hardship, etc. The grand jury selection process is pretty much they bring a bunch of people into a room, they pick the first X people on the list, and that is the grand jury barring any of justifiable exceptions. There is no attempt to balance the group in any way, and no minimum requirements, really.
If the lawyers had their way, they would pick grand jurors that want to go home and will rubber stamp whatever they bring forth.
She’s auditioning for a high level position in the Biden Administration — or a gig at CNN or MSNBC — whichever pays more.
It gives me a warm feeling to see my expectations validated.
Time to do some OPPO on this idiot.
Shouldn't be hard.
She’s a normal person thrust into a very strange situation.
She's a freakin' witch, you twit.
Steve Uhr: totally ignorance of grand jury rules are no excuse for you.
Not that you matter at all.
But it matters for her.
Have I clarified any of this for you?
"She’s a normal person thrust into a very strange situation."
She's a witch. Literally.
What is the fuss?
She is pretty much your normal suburban white Democrat woman.
In other words, she is Inga before menopause.
Big Mike said...
Serious question for law professor (Emerita) Althouse and for the lawyers who comment here. Why has this woman not been slapped with contempt of court by the judge?
Prolly cuz she hasn't violated any laws.
She was the foreperson of a Georgia Special Grand Jury under Ga. Code 15-12-100
This Special Grand Jury has issued its report, and has been dissolved. Her work is done. It is now all in the report, which the supervising judges have. She was one of more than 20 Special Grand Jurors.
I rather wish this Special Grand Jury Foreperson had never spoken to the media. Not because I'm not interested; I am. Not because I am concerned about any fairness to Doanald Trump; I am not. But rather because I don't wish Trump's criminal defense lawyers to be given anything -- however frivolous or tangential -- to help their cause.
But the simple fact is that I am not worried; the prosecutor will no doubt go by the book in preparing indictments, and then Trump will be given a fair trial.
See y'all in court.
Like most institutions I grew up trusting, the legal system in this country is a sad, pathetic joke.
Trump was in the public eye for over 30 years before he became president. The second he threatened peoples rice bowls, he became enemy number one.
His presence has shown us just how rotten this government is.
Burning it all down is the best way to go now. Nothing should be saved.
Orwell was right. People will believe what ever propaganda they are fed, especially 'educated' women.
This is a "Special" Grand Jury. The normal rules do not apply.
Not a joke.
no secrecy required
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/politics/georgia-grand-jury-emily-kohrs-what-matters/index.html
My hopeful theory: She knows what she's doing. She's deliberately sabatoging the proceedings. She has a Trump shrine at her home.
I sure hope and pray that Trump is not indicted. Democrats need him to be the Republican nominee in 2024.
She has destroyed that grand jury. The biases is so obvious any indictment will be thrown out. She has gutted that GJ.
Joe Smith said...
"See how high she flyyyys..."
“Oh, Witch A Woman”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QB3o2xThJBw
You literally cannot make this stuff up, President Trump is bewitching.
If brains were C4, she couldn't blow her own nose.
Pfizer made an example out of James O'Keefe.
This is what happens when you go asking the wrong questions.
Hmmm - 30 years old and "between jobs" with nothing in the way, so she applies for "leader of the pack." Nothing else to do for 7 or 8 months. But she spends more time reading people's reactions than seriously considering the crimes committed. The judge should have told them all to keep their mouths zipped until the next grand jury does its job.
I have no idea why the jury foreperson needed to sign documents, but that is likely how the media got her name when they received the judge's decision to tell the press that more legal proceedings were in the works.
Steve Uhr. "Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time…"
Political prosecutions are always ugly.
Witches of the world: Unite!
In other news, the NYT finally wrote a story in the opinion pages about the efficacy of masks during COVID. They don't work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-work.html
Special grand jury. Similar to a Very Special Episode of “Blossom,” I guess.
Special grand jury. Similar to a Very Special Episode of “Blossom,” apparently.
My hopeful theory: She knows what she's doing. She's deliberately sabatoging the proceedings. She has a Trump shrine at her home.
@Amdrew, no such luck. Her antics motivated someone with the handle SomeBitchIKnow to track down the Pinterest page for Ms. Kohrs, and unlike Christine O’Donnell from a dozen years ago, she really is into Wicca. The story is over on Instapundit.
Perhaps the Devil really did come down to Georgia?
Background on the players: DA Fanni Willis looked the other way, by her own weirdly unabashed admission, for years while her then-boss, Fulton DA Paul Howard sexually harassed subordinates, when he and she were supposed to be prosecuting sex crimes instead. That's Fulton County Justice for you. Then, suddenly, one day they find Howard has set up a fake nonprofit (like all such nonprofits in Atlanta), giving himself hundreds of thousands in unreported salary from "reentry grants" intended for inmate rehab (literally like a non-profit I was assigned to and reported decades ago: how about picking something less obvious?); suddenly, after decades, Howard is out and Willis is in as DA.
She offers some pluses in relations with police. She takes a stand that makes no friends by indicting and convicting and imprisoning schoolteachers and principals for testing fraud -- if that seems extreme to you, the educators got big bonuses for improved grades and held actual parties where they sat around erasing and changing student answers. Then again, they spent a lot of our money on that small public fraud.
So Willis likes her a front page RICO. She does at least use them against violent gangs.
This young woman has clearly been carefully coached. Not a rocket scientist, but surprisingly well-coached. She's just spent seven months meeting celebrities and being fawned over by important people. And this is going to be good for her professionally and personally. My guess is Willis doesn't have much but is rolling it out slowly using fabric store witch girl as a distraction. A few process crimes. Disaster for Willis' hope to professionally profit from a big conviction. So, cue to the Wiccan.
Disgusting abuse of exceedingly, exceedingly limited justice system resources as actual blood flows in the streets of Atlanta; cops get shot and fire-bombed; people wait years in limbo as Covid-delayed cases get no justice, and many people there tell me crime has never been so bad.
For those above wondering, didn’t Kohrs know about the requirement to secrecy? Consider that the news companies interviewing her ought to have known. Now wonder why those news media outlets want to tank the prosecution.
The very picture of gravitas and prosecutorial discretion.
@BigMike,
Wow. Thanks for the info.
You can tell by watching and listening to her that something is "off."
@Tina Trent, what a great line: “fabric store witch girl.” I’m gonna steal it.
Stunning and brave.
While there was nothing illegal about the foreperson’s conduct, Cunningham said the frenzy of public attention risks undermining public confidence in the process. “That’s the downside,” he said.
It's a special counsel with no charging ability. Much better than truth social. Won't have any effect on the charging person and charges to come. Just a 30-year-old kid with a thrill of notoriety.
Chuck is unconcerned with fairness for Trump a.k.a. a fair trial. You are the problem with the justice system. Just go away.
I feel kind of bad for her, Big Mike. The media eats these people up and spits them out. I've talked more people out of doing interviews than talking to the press at all.
But she is an adult, 30. And she is promoting her very status in life as being some kind of evidence that her involvement in the system actually proves democracy works. So I honor her with the title, and I'm glad you like it. Curiously, she's also worked for a court reporter firm, though in what capacity I don't know.
I wish we didn't have a jury system in certain cases, especially politicized ones like these. I wish we imitated some European nations that train a special cohort of justices who sit in groups as the jury to decide certain trials. Of course, the leftists would take that over too, but it couldn't be any worse than what we have for juries now. It's also amazing who walks free in criminal courts.
Luckily, Judge McBurney is a pretty sane and fair guy, from what I've heard. How much he matters, I don't know the details.
Also, Hobby Lobby is a thousand times better than JOANN Fabrics.
Steve Uhr: that was rude of me. I apologize.
'Forewoman'? 'Foreperson'???
Gack. Where is Dixy Lee Ray when you need her?
Look up Zuckerbucks influence on Georgia elections. It's disgusting, but the SoS is helping the Senate fix it.
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