How will state and federal prosecutors prevent MAGAts, Trumpists, etc. from being

[no_hypocrisy]

empaneled on a jury? Attorneys are given a certain allotment of disqualifications. All you need is one prospective juror to lie about being impartial with no paper trail, and you've got a hung jury. If anything, you'd see MAGAts crawling out of the wall like cockroaches to serve on such a jury. They'd vote like the 43 republican senators yesterday: Let our boy go!

Second part: Even with a conviction, wouldn't Trump's appeals lawyers argue that the jury was unfairly prejudiced against him? (Dershowitz's forte is appeals.)

[hlthe2b]

1. I think they need to search social media history (and yes, I know that would be highly controversial

[ret5hd]

2. Where I'm located (red red red)...

when you are called for jury duty, there is no hint anywhere of what the case is going to be...maybe DUI, maybe burglary, but probably a civil case...all those hundreds of thousands of utterly boring mind-numbing cases that "those you speak of" DO NOT CARE ABOUT...especially for $10/day or so, minus parking fees.

It will be the same as always..."those you speak of" will, in the same numbers they do today and last week and last year, do everything they can to get out of jury duty. Hell, a good percentage of those in the riots didn't even get out of bed to vote.

Yes, voire dire will be especially important, as always. But I don't really see things changing that much...maybe I'm blind though.

[SharonClark]

5. Well said.

[Cosmocat]

3. This is a REAL issue

It isn't only the rabid, in your face MAGA hat wearing types.

There are millions of people who are much more subdued and subtle about their victimhood as whites who could easily find their way on to a jury.

[StarfishSaver]

7. That's been true for decades, but it's not considered a big deal when only black and brown people

are on trial ...

[C_U_L8R]

4. In Manhattan, no problem.

There's no Trump love here. Hasn't been for decades. Except Staten Island. That speaks for itself.

[StarfishSaver]

6. Lawyers are very good at screening jurors

And in high profile cases, they use juror consultants, background investigators, etc. And they don't just look at paper trails. They use demography, psychology and all sorts of other things to assist. It's not foolproof, but it's not that easy for a a seriously devoted MAGAT to slip past them. And once people are on juries, it's often surprising how fair they try to be. Even in Manafort's case, a diehard Trump supporter voted to convict.

And many of these cases would likely be brought in New York City and Washington, DC where the population is largely minority and progressive.

As for challenging jurors on appeal, that's very difficult unless there is some obvious juror misconduct.

I'm less worried about Trump getting a jury biased in his favor than I am about the thousands of black and brown men and women who get locked up every day because the justice system treats them like they don't matter.