Controversy continues over Fulton County special grand jury forewoman Emily Kohrs’ high-profile media tour. At stake now is the credibility of the panel investigating possible criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election.
The 30-year-old self-described “witch” told reporters that the supposedly fact-finding grand jury, which can only make recommendations on whether prosecutors should indict, had made recommendations for more than 12 people in the case. (Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will ultimately make any charging decisions before a new, regular grand jury.)
Former President Donald Trump’s Atlanta attorneys argue the details she divulged have “poisoned” the inquiry launched by Willis. But there’s another aspect to Kohrs’s interviews. An InsiderAdvantage reader responded to her comments thusly:
“Kohrs is not the villain, but a hero. She has naively but candidly and credibly shown a light into the dark recesses of how things work in Fulton County– including what is supposed to be a solemn, serious and objective grand jury proceeding involving leading citizens.
“As we have seen, it was more a fun event, a good time sticking it to the Republicans, especially Trump, who was not represented or defended at the proceedings. It involved the forewoman having popsicles, her fantasies of confronting the former president, an ice cream party hosted by prosecutors for the grand jurors and who knows what other shenanigans.
“We have all this from a naive, enthusiastic liberal Democrat who made the mistake of speaking the truth. … She has embarrassed her colleagues as none of us could ever have done.”
The Kohrs interviews naturally went national. Gerard Baker, to cite one example, wrote this in The Wall Street Journal:
“The woman in whose hands some lawyer (and her peers) placed the liberty of a former president, and perhaps the stability of the republic itself, spent last week giddily skipping from television studio to newspaper office sharing the sober deliberations of a secret judicial process like a fluttery teenager dishing the dirt on the saucy goings-on at last night’s junior prom.”
Baker and other journalists question if her comments will derail any possible prosecution of Trump. In any event, the former president’s lawyers say if Willis issues any charges they would challenge “faulty indictments.”
There another aspect to this story, too. There may not be enough time in the Georgia General Assembly session that ends on March 30, but it still could be possible for a lawmaker to attach an amendment to some legislation that would punish anyone from making an unauthorized disclosure of grand jury proceedings.
