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Prosecutors on Tuesday urged the judge overseeing Donald Trump's election interference case in Washington to take steps to protect the identity of prospective jurors, citing the former president's “continued use of social media as a weapon of intimidation in court proceedings.”
Special counsel Jack Smith's team team wants U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to issue a written questionnaire to help the two sides choose potential jurors. But it also would give lawyers early access to those people's identifying information in the case accusing the former Republican president of illegally plotting to overturn his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Prosecutors said in court papers they are concerned about what Trump might do with that information, pointing to his recent disparagement of the clerk of the New York judge overseeing Trump's civil business fraud trial that caused the judge to issue a limited gag order. Trump posted a photo of Judge Arthur Engoron's principal law clerk, Allison Greenfield, posing with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., at a public event, writing that it was “disgraceful” that Greenfield was working with the judge in the courtroom.
