Indictment Watch

There were 10 of them.  The prosecutors asked for 10 and not one of those asks was rejected. 

Of course, none of the commentators can agree on what an indictment might be.  When the first indictment out of the Grand Jury was made available to the talking heads, no one was sure that the other 9 indictments were at all related to the attempts to steal the election: They might be just regular cases the Grand Jury normally sees.

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Because Georgia law requires an extraordinary amount of transparency, the world could watch the County Clerk, in all her orange splendor and surrounded by guards, walk a stack of papers down the hall and through the door into the courtroom where she presented them to Judge McBurney. 

We saw him look them over.  We saw the Clerk assure him that they had been and would still remain in her custody, and then the camera followed her back down the hall, through a closed door, and that was that.

It took less than tem minutes.

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The only people who were not wondering what was coming were the members of Fani Willis's team.  My guess is after the champagne, they took a moment. 

It's hard to separate the satisfaction of a job well done with the solemnity of the occasion. 

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I'm having a hard time not jumping for joy. Trump's plan to overthrow our democracy is laid out so plainly.  

Influencing Witnesses.  False Statements and Writings.  Forgeries.  Donald Trump is charged with conspiracy to do all that and more.  

That's not something to celebrate.

On the other hand, the system seems to be holding, and that does make me happy.  

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I know.  I know.  Innocent until proven guilty.

But a RICO case in Georgia only requires that the DA prove two of the charges.  

I heard the Brad Raffensperger phone call.  I saw the fake elector paperwork.  

That's two.  

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