Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a motion that urged U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to put guardrails in place to protect the possible jurors in Donald Trumpā€™s election-subversion case.

Former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner suggested Smith hadnā€™t just ā€œtaken off the glovesā€ with the move. It ā€œlooks like heā€™s boxed them up, taped up the box, and sent them to long-term storage,ā€ Kirschner said on a new episode of his ā€œJustice Mattersā€ podcast.

Smith encouraged Chutkan to streamline the jury selection process with a questionnaire for potential jurors, ban their details from being public, and prohibit direct contact between attorneys and jurors.

The motion referred to Republican 2024 front-runner Trumpā€™s attack on social media of a court official in his civil fraud trial in New York, which prompted a judge to slap the former president with a gag order.

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    "While arguing against the motion by Trumpā€™s lawyers to delay the May 20 trial, special counsel Jack Smithā€™s lawyers assured theyā€™re ready to go and that such a delay isnā€™t necessary, unsurprisingly. But they also said they are ready to prove something significant that, to this point, has remained shrouded and the subject of much speculation: why Trump allegedly took and kept the documents.ā€

    "The government apparently thinks it knows ā€˜what Trump intendedā€™ with the documents. And itā€™s signaling that it plans to prove that intent.ā€

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/10/trump-classified-documents-motive/

    If he sold, or evenĀ attempted, or evenĀ offered, to sell these documents for gain to anyone at all, he really needs to feel the full pain & consequences of a traitor to his country. Any lengthy prison sentence would be too light but he really needs to be made an example of. Throw the book at him.