As deliberations in the E. Jean Carroll trial were underway on Friday, tweeps were amusing one another by speculating was it must be like in the jury room. One wag said something to the effect of "You realize that right now, nine people are sitting around a table saying to each other, 'No, make it higher.'" Nailed it!
Carroll's appearance with her lawyers on MSNBC tonight was the first time in ages that we've actually bothered to watch the Rachel Maddow show. We're disappointed that Maddow only had them on for what amounted to a half-hour (thanks to one of her typically long-winded monologues). There were so many more questions we wanted to ask. But Carroll's story about how, face to face in the same courtroom, Benedict Donald was smaller than small made it worth tuning in.
It satisfying to hear Carroll say that, because she sounded so relieved. As the saying goes, a great weight has clearly been lifted off her. But it also underscored the fact that nine ordinary Americans, sitting around that jury-room table, decided he was a nothing, too. A former President of the United States is being made to pay because a gutsy woman stood up for herself, and because seven men and two women said so. Ain't America great? We cats PURR.
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