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Anonymous wrote:Trump is only going to tolerate grand juries refusing to return an indictment before he targets those grand jurors individually. He’ll sic the IRS on them, and find all sorts of other ways to harass them.
You say Trump is immune from prosecution but his staff isn’t? You say judges will hold Trump’s people accountable if they do this? No, no they won’t. They are not going to dare intervene because Trump controls their security via the U.S. Marshals Service. Roberts obviously made a deal with Trump after Congress stiffed the Supreme Court police in the Appropriations mark for FY2026. So now Trump is seeking the money the SCOTUS Police needs to take on full security responsibilities for the SCOTUS justices. In exchange, the Roberts Court continues to serve Trump.
Trump is going to raise the cost of opposing him. With the bullets being scrawled with supposedly anti-Trump messages, the next step will be Trump ordering loyalist troops and National Guard forces to open fire on Democrats. He has to shut down opposition before he’s exposed as less than all-powerful, and he’s going to pull out the stops Nightvof Long Knives-style to do so.
Aren't grand juries's identities confidential?
They absolutely are. I was on a federal grand jury many years ago. We got certificates commending us for our service at the end, and when the AUSA gave me mine I said, "and I can't ever show it to anyone, right?" And the court is not subject to Trump's demand for their identities.
Their names aren’t public, but the prosecutors know them
And if the GJ fails to indict, how long will it be before those Antifa radical leftist communist thugs on the GJ are doxxed?
Besides the prosecutors knowing who the grand jurors are, Chief Justice Roberts heads up judicial administration. He can order his designees to arrange that any information Trump wants on the grand jurors be delivered to whomever Trump wishes.
Back in August the House Appropriations Committee came in with their “mark”, the appropriations they recommend for each program. For the first time in memory, the Supreme Court did not get funding for everything it wanted. This even though they sought increased funding for the Supreme Court Police so that SCOTUS would not need to rely at all upon the US Marshals (under Trump) for protective services.
Obviously Roberts wasn’t having that. He has no issue with the US Marshals under Trump providing security for regular judges because it would cost far more to stand up a full judicial security service under judicial control. As a loyal Republican, he isn’t going to seek a huge appropriation when another entity already fulfills the function. But he’s not going to risk his own security. So with Trump agreeing to tell the Republicans in Congress to fund the SCOTUS police, Roberts will stand down on bringing the U.S. Marshals into the Judicial Branch under Roberts’s control.