so, it seems like that would be the clerk that was just visited and they are now going to toward the judge. could well be. is that a safe assumption? would well be. sometimes the judge will do this in front of the public in the courtroom. usually it s no big deal. the person just walks up and the cases don t mean much to anybody. sometimes the judge can choose to do this behind closed doors in chambers. it s really up to the judge to do that. i think the courtroom we re looking at here, sara is correct, this is not the grand jury room. you would never have a camera inside a grand jury room. that has never happened. i don t think that will happen. this does appear to be a courtroom where the crowd, the media, assembled there does seem to be expecting some sort of an announcement by the judge. and the judge could well do that and come out and say we ve returned the following indictments today, case number such and such, state of georgia versus whoever. also former georgia feder
That he went to, that people who worked inside the white house, his attorneys, all these other allies of his, the great lengths they went to to try to pressure the state officials, some of the ones you saw testifying today, this was at the center of his efforts to undo this. i think this is why the trump team is viewing it so seriously here. and you heard from his attorneys here now facing several of their indictments that this is different because it would be state charges and he would not, even if he does win the 2024 election, have that legal protection here afforded to him with the federal cases, where he could either have an attorney general who fires jack smith or who makes the cases go away or he can essentially pardon himself. there s some questions about that. this would not be the case here. it s a state patrol board that makes those determinations in georgia. he would not be able to basically insulate himself. judge, would it be possible if he did get elected president and
Proceedings, there s nothing unusual about the grand jury foreperson coming in with the prosecutor. in jor r jo, indictments are going to be presented in open court. and that is the courthouse is to be open, the courtroom is to be open. the judge will have the bench. and at that point, there will be a clerk present. and then sometimes there is a discussion with the judge and can the foreperson, the indictment handed up. they ll flip through the pages to make sure it s signed in the proper places and those things. the indictment will be received and returned in open court. that s what it sounds like is happening here. and, you know, the next step, obviously, the judge will accept it. the docket will be given to the clerk and filed in the public docket and at that point we re off to the race. it sounds to me like this cake is well baked and it s just a matter of time before we see an indictment. it ll be interesting to see if it tracks the charges from the earlier posting that we talked
You can just tell him to stop doing something and he ll stop doing something. it almost encourages him to do it more when someone has told him to stop doing something like that. they know and this does not help them. judge, isn t the defendant allowed to say the judge is unfair or the prosecutor is deranged? right. yes. he has the right to free speech. he can say what he wants. but the judge has warned him specifically not to do that, not to taint the jury pool. and there s a real risk here that what he says could have that impact. i agree with kaitlan. i did a quick count. he s attacked at least ten different judges over the years by name. that s his m.o. that s the way he operates. he attacks the judges and calls them biased and unfair and therefore he can t get a fair trial. it s all a witch hunt. so, this is what he s done over and over again. and judge, we learned tonight that donald trump is seeking to have a lawsuit brought by the estate of capitol police officer
Ordinarily what would happen is the prosecutor who s been handling the grand jury proceedings, after the grand jury has voted, assuming they would have voted yes on an indictment, would walk the foreperson over to the clerk s window. we saw someone signing paperwork at a trance loose ent window. some judges do it in open court. the grand jury, forepern, will literally hand up the indictment. that s why we use the phrase, hand up an indictment. the judge will review them quickly. it s just a formality. and then sometimes the judge will announce the case names and numbers. other times that will happen behind closed doors in chambers. and the way we would then find out is when these documents hit the public docket, which would be nearly instantaneously. it does look like there s some security moving through this area here. we don t know exactly who the people are. but, again, you would take the foreperson as a prosecutor, walk with that foreperson to the clerk and then to the judge, where