So how exactly would any group of people go about impaneling a legitimate grand jury.
Let’s say a pro Trump guy like Hannity wanted to create a grand jury to investigate all the corruption of the deep state how would he do that? What are the specific steps? And has that ever been done? And where would the money to fund such an investigation come from? (maybe that is the show stopper).
You’re asking all the right questions.
Some of the answers lie in the process of how any group forms itself, from a corporation to a nonprofit. The funding in my view and preference should be self-funding by say retirees or financially independent persons. Yes, such persons still exist.
As for the interaction with a court system, the grand jury would file with a court for recognition as a bona fide grand jury and with a prosecutor’s office to compel prosecution, no different that any other grand jury.
Of course, such a filing would be challenged so the grand jury organizers would have to have legal counsel ready to dismiss and appeal as necessary based on the Scalia ruling.
This thread is put out there to spread the word in conservative legal communities of another pathway available via Scalia and the Supreme Court decision in the US v. Williams case referenced above. Because as it is now, the conservative legal community is doing nothing but complaining about the FBI and DOJ intransigence. And they should expect that the FBI and DOJ will do NOTHING to prosecute Clinton, Lynch, Comey, McCabe and others.
What you and others can do is to spread the word on, let’s call it. “Scalia Grand Juries”. Spread the word when you call in to Limbaugh or any talk show host, Hannity, Tucker, social media, Twitter, etc. Keep pushing the word out there until the right ears hear it and commit to seeing it through.
Can't be done.
Another quote from the same Scalia opinion: "Although the grand jury normally operates, of course, in the courthouse and under judicial auspices, its institutional relationship with the Judicial Branch has traditionally been, so to speak, at arm's length. Judges' direct involvement in the functioning of the grand jury has generally been confined to the constitutive one of calling the grand jurors together and administering their oaths of office."