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In defense of Emily Kohrs... [1]

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Date: 2023-03-05  

I feel Emily Kohrs has been maligned. Accordingly, I decided to post some of this article that I just read today.

The following is quoted from an article in the ‘New York Magazine’, “The Intelligencer”, dated March 3, 2023. The article says more than what I quoted below, but here are a couple of highlights:

Link: In Defense of the Talkative Trump Grand Juror



...The judge who ordered the limited release of the grand jury’s report weighed in this week after ABC News asked him what he thought about the whole dustup, and he largely shut down the criticism — explaining that, under Georgia law, the jurors could not publicly discuss their “deliberations” but were free to “talk about witness testimony,” “about things that the assistant district attorneys told” them, and “about the final report.” Given the precipitating media freak-out, the judge punctuated the point rather unsubtly, concluding that “folks should think long and hard about what impact, at all, this special-purpose grand jury’s work would have should there be an indictment down the road.”

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For the most part, all Kohrs appears to have done was to fulfill her civic duty by sitting on the jury, to respond to media requests concerning her role in a major news story (at least before the media turned on her), and to adhere to the judge’s guidance about what she could and could not say.

The fact that she could be so easily and successfully trashed — and that she has probably faced a deluge of obnoxious and perhaps threatening missives from Trump supporters — is not exactly surprising, but it is worrisome all the same. Anyone sitting on a jury in a prosecution against Trump will be doing so at serious personal, reputational, and possibly even physical risk, particularly if the result is a conviction. The media should not be irresponsibly facilitating attacks on these people, especially when they are baseless, deliberately amplified by Trump and his lawyers, or both.

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