Today's Beau:
I hadn't remembered the detail about a Special Grand Jury not doing the indictment thing. And considering Beau's point about AG Willis probably having already decided to go for an indictment, but looking for the Special Grand Jury to issue a recommendation to seek indictment, makes me think Wills is taking it step-by-step to be as sure as possible that it sticks.
Next:
There's a weird thing that happens when reality steps up and slaps Americans into consciousness.Just one, Mike? Really?
Shut up, small voice in the back of my head.
We like to think we can take it all in stride and do the day-to-day work we have to do to get by, while dealing with these bigger systemic problems that come along, even as they get bigger and arrive at what seems to be a quickening pace.
But while juggling balls and hatchets and the occasional chainsaw has to be pretty much standard stuff now - hey, man, that's just life on the wild frontier, y'know? - somebody throws a snarling rabid hyena into the mix, and we have to stop for a minute.
This is not just some new wrinkle. The act has changed - without our say-so - and we'd better figure out how to deal with it. Rapidly.
I'm hoping these newer developments can mean that a much bigger percentage of Americans will start to grok the enormity of what's going on - because fashion shifts. When it becomes more fashionable to be better-informed and more involved in our little experiment, then things can begin to change in our favor.
CNN:
An Atlanta-area district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia will be allowed to seat a special grand jury this spring.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis requested last week to seat a special grand jury starting May 2. Fulton County Superior Court judges approved the request on Monday.
Though the special grand jury does not have the authority to issue an indictment, the move will allow Willis to seat a panel entirely focused on gathering evidence in the Trump investigation. She said she needed such a grand jury in order to issue subpoenas to compel witnesses to testify and to gather additional evidence -- a step toward pursuing possible criminal charges.
Willis has said she expects to decide on whether to bring charges against Trump in the first half of 2022. She wrote last week that her office has "received information indicating a reasonable probability that the State of Georgia's administration of elections in 2020, including the State's election of President of the United States, was subject to possible criminal disruptions," according to a letter sent to Christopher Brasher, chief judge of Fulton County's Superior Court, and provided by the court.
The Georgia inquiry is just one of several investigations that Trump is fielding a year after leaving office. The former President is also facing the New York attorney general's civil investigation into the Trump Organization and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office criminal investigation into his namesake company.
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