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no_hypocrisy

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Sun Feb 14, 2021, 08:19 AM Feb 2021

How will state and federal prosecutors prevent MAGAts, Trumpists, etc. from being [View all]

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.)

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