Laurence Tribe Wonders Why A Grand Jury Isn't Mulling Sedition Charges Against Steve Bannon

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe is wondering why the Department of Justice isn’t convening a grand jury to consider sedition charges against Donald Trump ally and former White House strategist Steve Bannon.

Tribe was referring Thursday to Bannon’s boast the previous day on his “War Room” podcast that “we told” Trump before the Jan. 6 insurrection: “You need to kill this administration in the crib.”

Bannon also had a “war-room-type meeting” with Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s former personal attorney, and others in Washington on the eve of the insurrection, Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reported in their new book, “Peril.” They also reported on Bannon’s comment that night about killing the Biden presidency “in the crib.”

Bannon played a clip on his podcast of an MSNBC interview with Woodward and Costa discussing Bannon’s role, and he didn’t deny it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/law-expert-wonders-why-grand-011305276.html

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

RFN!

[ananda]

3. Tribe has the patience of Job.

He knows what should happen legally, but never gets
fluffed about it.

[StarfishSaver]

4. Grossly misleading-Prof. Tribe did NOT say he's "wondering why a grand jury isn't mulling charges"

He said that "it's increasingly hard to see how DOJ can sit on this kind of revelation without convening a grand jury." He didn't say he thinks DOJ hasn't convened a grand jury but that he can't imagine why they wouldn't.

I went back and read the tweets the article cites because I thought this headline was odd since Prof. Tribe knows that grand jury proceedings are secret and grand juries are often convened and hear evidence without the public knowing about it. So it would be weird for him to claim a grand jury isn't considering charges because he has no way of knowing whether a grand jury is considering charges, what charges they're considering and who the target(s) of those charges may be. He knows better and that's why he didn't say it - but the headline writer probably doesn't understand it and misstated the point he made.

Professor Tribe is speaking in the conditional, just as he had in an earlier tweet when he suggested that it WOULD be hard for DOJ to justify if they're not doing something. That's very different than saying they AREN'T doing anything.

He DEFINITELY did not say he was "wondering why a grand jury isn't mulling charges," despite what the headline claims.

[Elessar Zappa]

5. Thank you.

Headlines are often misleading and click-bait. I don’t blame the OP but the writer of the article.

[StarfishSaver]

6. Yes. This is definitely not on the OP

The headline writer (who may not have written the article) is responsible. And I can see how a laypeople who aren't familiar with the grand jury system would have no reason to know that the headline mischaracterized what Prof. Tribe said.

[monkeyman1]

7. this sure happens frequently !

[Beetwasher.]

16. Great Post, Indeed!

[Sogo]

8. I thought grand jury proceedings were completely private.

How would we know if one had been convened for this?

[gab13by13]

9. Back to Rummy's quote again,

why not just say part 3, we don't know what we don't know?

We had an attempted coup and the discourse here is to not get alarmed, to just wait, because we don't know what DOJ is or isn't doing.

The biggest threat to our democracy is from people who say not to worry, be happy. 9 months ago we had an attempted coup and all we have so far are judges giving bit players slaps on the wrists.

[StarfishSaver]

12. Exactly

If you read the article and Tribe's tweets, you'll see that he never claimed to know whether a grand jury is taking evidence. The headline is misleading.

[CanonRay]

10. Me too

[Duppers]

11. K & R

[2naSalit]

13. Yup. I'm wondering too.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. I still posit that

you don't want to make these guys into lightning rods and martyrs, you don't want to give them the chance to be acquitted, and these guys know everything about everyone so you tread lightly. Timely indictments for 2024 are good enough, and you strike when the appeal of their movement has declined so as not to divide the country more sharply.

[BComplex]

15. I've been wondering why Trump hasn't been arrested for treason.

If there has EVER been someone who has openly and brazenly committed treason, it's him.

[StarfishSaver]

17. Treason has a very specific legal definition

and most scholars believe that Trump's actions don't fit within it. It would be difficult, if not impossible to get a conviction on a treason charge.

[budkin]

18. Trump is good for ratings so it's all good

He just likes to disrupt norms and make America great again!

[NurseJackie]

19. If they were, would he know? Would we know?

[Blue Owl]

20. The Slobfraudster and his pathetic Slobfather