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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    The metaphor was so strained I wasnā€™t sure if it meant he was being harder or softer on Trump. Like there is a metaphorical ā€˜take off the glovesā€™ but if theyā€™re being FedExā€™d to your grandma at some point that represents you giving up on the gloves for good and thus metaphorically the fight entirely.

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      Youā€™re exactly right. The metaphor was so strained that the resulting broth was perfectly clarified and became the base of a delicious consommĆ©.

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      ā€œTaking the gloves offā€ is a boxing metaphor that means youā€™re about to pummel someone badly by disregarding any rules of engagement. He followed that up with, I donā€™t know, an archivist metaphor? Really weird.