| As Trump Jury Gets to 12
Dark Talk of Doxxing As Harry Reid
and Hakeem Jeffries Mentioned
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
100 CENTRE
ST COURT,
April 18 – In the Trump Trial
on Day 3 of jury selection,
the official 12 were selected,
and so far, one alternate.
It was a back
then forward process, in which
two of the seven already
selected jurors were removed,
but then at the end of the day
once the peremptory challenges
ran out, seven jurors and one
alternate were selected.
Based on
one juror's complaint, Justice
Merchan admonished the Press
to not report where people
worked, nor if they had (just
for example) a strong Irish
accent.
Did this mean to
not report that one
prospective juror came from
Venezuela, and has a position
on the Hispanic National Bar
Foundation?
Or that another,
from Nevada, said his father
was good friends with Harry
Reid? Later there was a Hakeem
Jeffries shout out and some
asked, What was the
difference? What indeed.
One juror
that didn't make it - so now
it could be told - was a law
clerk at SDNY, and an intern
in EDNY. She had discussed
Mark Pomerantz' book with her
co-worker, she said.
She was off - but
a woman who stayed in Trump
lawyer Susan Necheles' house,
albeit 15 years ago, and whose
husband wrote an "anti-Trump"
book review, could only be
struck by peremptory, after
Trump's for-cause challenge
was denied.
It
now seemed that opening
arguments could in fact take
place on Monday, April 23.
Already there was talk of
"line sitters," at a cost or
wage of $65 an hour. Why not
more overflow courtrooms?
Answers were hard to come by.
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