In Trump Trial, Jury Selection Is Part Politics

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The jury selection process is still underway in former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial. In order to get on the jury, Manhattanites responded to a questionnaire with 42 questions ranging from whether they belong to QAnon or Antifa to what podcasts they listen to. The attorneys on both sides scrutinized their social media posts, asked them about their opinions of Trump, and had the opportunity to ask they be removed from consideration. This is all with the goal of impaneling an unbiased jury. It’s one of the most important parts of the process and also gets at the heart of a lot of what we talk about on the 538 Politics podcast. Based on a person’s own biography and demography, how do they feel about the former president and his criminal prosecution? In this installment of the podcast, Galen speaks with law professors Jessica Roth and Valerie Hans about the challenges of jury selection and what lack of bias we can expect from jurors in such a unique trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.1	My anecdotal experience as a prosecutor is that people do enjoy it and that they feel kind of empowered and they feel better about the jury system once they've served.
0:31.0	You mean despite Tina Fay dressing up like Princess Leah and pretending that she can read people's
0:36.4	minds therefore making it unfair for her to serve on her jury?
0:39.7	Despite all those people trying to get out of it, the people who actually do it like it. Hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast I'm Gailen Druk.
0:57.0	As of Tuesday evening, seven jurors had been selected in former President Trump's
1:02.3	Manhattan Criminal Trial, but as of Thursday been selected in former President Trump's Manhattan criminal trial.
1:03.8	But as of Thursday morning, as we taped this podcast,
1:07.2	it seems like at least one has dropped out.
1:10.9	The selection process is again getting underway today, so we'll see how many jurors we have by the end of Thursday.
1:17.0	Judge Juan Marshaan had said that he hopes to have a full jury, so 12 jurors and six alternates selected by the end of the week.
1:25.7	It seems at this point like that may be a little overly hopeful, but we'll see.
1:31.0	The jury is going to remain anonymous but some details about them have been made public
1:36.3	so for example the foreman is originally from Ireland lives in Harlem and works in sales
1:41.7	there are two lawyers in the group. There's a lifelong
1:44.8	New Yorker and teacher who was apparently unaware that Trump is facing three
1:49.6	other potential trials and there are many others.
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