Mueller has convened a Grand Jury

[Roland99]

Link to tweet

[malaise]

1. This is huge

Get thee to the greatest page

[Thomas Hurt]

2. convene or hand down indictments?

[Brother Buzz]

7. The Grand Jury hands down the indictment.

That is, after the prosecutor convenes the jury to present the case.

[triron]

3. What does this mean I wonder? Why now?

[Roland99]

4. Haven't seen any real updates in over an hour

How long do grand juries typically convene?

[Shrike47]

8. Cohen has lots to testify about, could be more than 1 day.

[calimary]

35. See Michael sing. Sing, Michael, sing!

Wonder how long before we'll know.

[George II]

10. Not sure about Federal, but I think State/Local Grand Juries sit for one day a week.

[Blue Owl]

5. Tick tock tick tock tick freaking tock!

This oughtta be good...

[MontanaMama]

6. Trying not to get my hopes up.

Would love to see some of the Shit Stain Campaign get indicted today.

[George II]

9. This could explain trump's early winter hibernation...

...since getting home from his humiliating European Vacation.

[Tipperary]

23. Lol. Well said!

[PatSeg]

11. K&R

[Cirque du So-What]

12. Gonna make it RAIN up in there!

Rain down indictments righteously.

[iluvtennis]

32. Yay, hard pouring rain I hope

[alterfurz]

50. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

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'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

[brettdale]

13. so he is getting close

And by close it maybe just a few weeks?

[Roland99]

14. UPDATE - Might be Corsi

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[blaze]

16. And this

Link to tweet

[Roland99]

21. Who's gonna flip first??

[flibbitygiblets]

15. Please don't be another Fitzmas. Be a Holiday "MuellTidal" wave!!

[Roland99]

18. Love the GIF!

[Wawannabe]

43. Would make my year

And be the best Christmas present I’ve had in many yrs. Go go Grand Jury!

[ananda]

17. Whoop! Let the court games begin!

..

[FakeNoose]

19. I think this one might be more recent?

Link to tweet

TOP ROPE TRAVIS
@TopRopeTravis:

A source who works in the same office building as Special Counsel, provided an image of press set up outside of the main entrance. They also report, every entrance to the building has camera crews positioned. No sightings of Mueller or Cohen today.

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…

Anonymous Fed
@EvilBobJ

Press still outside federal courthouse in DC. They have not seen Michael Cohen make an appearance and said they will most likely be posted up here all week.



Something is definitely up but it's not happening today. They must be getting ready for tomorrow

[bearsfootball516]

22. Or sometime this week. There's really no way to know.

[Grasswire2]

46. STAKEOUT! nt

[Ilsa]

20. I feel like a little bit of Rocky Mountain Mike:

[thbobby]

24. It is what it is. We can speculate all we want.

Something is up. That is about the limit of my knowledge, or anyone else's outside team Mueller. Mueller is crafty. What will happen and when it will happen is just speculation. Still, I am checking news sources almost hourly.

[marble falls]

25. I have no doubts about Mueller or his investigation. They're cuing "Gotterdammerung" at the WH.

[volstork]

33. Ten bucks says

no one in that White House has ANY idea what "Gotterdammerung" is...

[marble falls]

38. Not intellectually, maybe, but in spirit they do. Can you imagine the stink of cheetolini's ...

bunker? Knee deep in big macs, fries and and awash in diet Coke.

[volstork]

39. Just this:

[Harker]

49. Trumpsky's Tarnhelm is about to lose its magical powers.

When his true nature is fully revealed, his most loyal sycophants will love him all the more.

[True Dough]

26. Mueller and his team are top notch, no doubt

But, to be honest, the info coming from TeaPain isn't always reliable. I'm not getting my hopes up until something official is announced.

[Marie Marie]

27. Oh please, oh please let it be Don Jr they are after.

[Hekate]

28. God help the USA now.... nt

[Ford_Prefect]

29. Call me optimistic but I pray for the Mike Pence connection to appear on the calendar.

He's every bit as dirty as the rest of them. He oversaw the Transition team and appears to have coordinated with various Russian actors during that time.

They appear to have gone to great lengths to obscure his activities.

[lefthandedskyhook]

34. That would be perfect

Speaker of the House would be in line for POTUS. We can dream eh?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Does NOT work like that. Never has.

tRump and Pence would have to be convicted in the Senate simultaneously.

Not going to happen.

[lefthandedskyhook]

41. I remember Agnew/Nixon

You are correct, Gerald Ford was appointed. The US Constitution is currently subverted in its very purpose and must be revived

[Ford_Prefect]

42. That is the sequence I was considering in posting above.

Mike enthusiastically plays for the dark side according to his own remarks.

If Pence is under indictment then he would have to take the same path as Agnew before him and resign. That would seem to close some theoretical doors presently argued as open.

My point is that the Pence information is most likely in the hands of the Grand Jury and should be made widely public as soon as judicially possible in order to head off the expected "revolt". I think we must shut down any theoretical options the other side has plans to exploit, especially those based on the pretense of Pence's alleged ignorance of Russian ties.

[lefthandedskyhook]

44. Weak tRump + weak pence +

New Democratic Senate/House/Presidency will be the solution. Send the criminals to prison then

[Pepsidog]

30. Grand jury is convened to hear evidence in secret. Hate these fake outs. The cameras maybe there to

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catch a glimpse of a witness, Cohen, but the GJ isn’t going to hear evidence, hand down indictment and then Muelller walks outside to announce. All this prognosticating that indictments are coming is exhausting. I want indictments as mush as the next guy but to much ”crying wolf” on DU.

[gldstwmn]

31. My money's on Don Jr. Corsi will roll

and they'll see who they can't get Jr. to roll on.

[NastyRiffraff]

37. Rachel should be interesting tonight

I'm sure NBC/MSNBC has people at the courthouse.

The waiting is the hardest!

[Sucha NastyWoman]

40. I once served on a federal grand jury

Wish I could do it again on that one

[Poiuyt]

47. Off topic, but what does a grand jury look like?

I mean physically. How is the room set up, how are the jurors seated, how do the prosecutors present their case, etc. I assume it does not look like a Perry Mason type courtroom.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

48. It looks more like a classroom

It was set in a nondescript room several floors up in a federal building roughly 8-10 stories high in downtown Houston. I would guess the size to be maybe 15x20 feet. Three rows of jurors chairs similar to what you would find in a classroom, with a small table attached to give you something to write on. All 23 of us heard the prosecutors presentation - 11 were alternates. The chairs faced a table at the front at which one or two prosecutors and any witnesses sat. some jurors took notes, some did not, and some slept sometimes (maybe they were the alternates?). We were pretty isolated. We had our own bathrooms and a small sitting area outside the jury room

We were on call one week out of every month, but sometimes we were called and told that we didn’t need to come that day. Some days we were only there a short time, other days it was a full day.

As you probably have heard, it is a rather one sided affair. We were admonished by the judge, at the beginning of our term, to not just be a rubber stamp for the prosecutors, but when you only hear from one side, usually an indictment is returned. I remember one case where the facts didn’t seem that convincing. I think the prosecutors could tell from the questions we were asking that there was a lot of skepticism. So they discontinued their presentation and took the case to another grand jury, rather than take the chance of our jury returning a “No Bill”.

Juries usually seve for a 12 month period, but can be extended, and our term lasted 15 months.

[Poiuyt]

51. Thank you!

Those are so secretive, it's nice to hear a firsthand account. Now I have a mental picture.

BTW, you would have thought they would have gotten more comfortable chairs for you!