The Isn’t it Grand Jury Edition

Rational Security

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News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

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🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The prosecutor in the Trump criminal probe convenes a grand jury to hear evidence and weigh potential charges. The skyjacking of a commercial airliner over Belarus sparks international condemnation. And a former Saudi intelligence official could spill classified information in a U.S. court.

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0:00.0	So I have a question, prompted off what's been in the news, and it says, always bother me.
0:05.0	Why is a grand jury called a grand jury, like what is especially grand about a grand
0:10.7	jury?
0:11.7	It is august.
0:12.7	It is an august body.
0:14.2	No, I don't think that's the reason.
0:17.8	I think the reason is that it's larger than a petit jury, a petit jury, a petite jury.
0:28.0	Yeah, except for some reason it's called petit.
0:30.4	Yeah, that's another thing I don't get.
0:32.7	It has like 12 or 14, depending on how you count, and a grand jury has 23.
0:39.9	Fun fact.
0:40.9	Free, by the way, a very odd number, a prime number.
0:45.7	Why?
0:46.7	I don't know, because they don't all show up.
0:49.3	Maybe they need to be able to bake a tie, so you want a odd number.
0:52.2	Okay.
0:53.2	I think the reason it's just, it's grand in the sense of big.
0:56.5	Big.
0:57.5	And they think grand thoughts.
0:59.1	Yeah, they do.
1:00.1	Yeah.
1:01.1	Never served on a jury, not for lack of drawing.
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