The identity of today’s high-profile defendant may be exceptional, but what reportedly occurred today was not.  Indeed, it happens every day across our nation—American citizens discharging one of their most important civic responsibilities by serving as jurors.  Twenty-three randomly selected citizens residing in Manhattan, meant to represent a cross-section of their community and serving under oath as members of a grand jury, were tasked with assessing the evidence that their locally elected prosecutors brought before them in order to determine whether an indictment was justified.  And after considering the facts and the law, they apparently decided that it was, and that the law should apply to a former president just as it applies to anyone else.

CAC Vice President Praveen Fernandes continued: