Incoming:
In Minnesota, a federal judge told prosecutors from the Trump Department of Justice that she wants to see all of the minutes from the grand jury proceedings to see if grand jurors were given all of the correct information in the case against journalist Don Lemon, who was arrested in January while covering a protest that occurred inside of Cities Church in St. Paul.
No, not just because a judge wants to see the grand jury transcripts, although that strongly indicates a lot of discontent and a dismissal is coming. No, this is the interesting bit:
“Two things to know about the grand jury. One, it's a one-sided process. The only people in the room are the prosecutor, witnesses, grand jurors, and a transcriber," Honig said. "And, two, judges almost never agree to look at the minutes before a trial happens. So, we don't know exactly what the alleged infirmity here is, but 99 times out of 100, judges are going to say, 'The grand jury is not my business.'"
"The fact that the judge is saying, 'I'm going to take a look at those' is a real red light to me," he continued. "And the judge has noted this Justice Department has been found to have violated grand jury procedures in other cases, including in Illinois against anti-ICE protesters. So there's a bit of history here as well."
That "bit of history” is the thin end of the wedge. Incompetence always undoes itself. The true hallmark of Trump 2.0 is Trump and Miller and Vought thinking they know what they’re doing; obviously, they don’t.
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