While serving on a jury, you can’t talk about what you do for hours each day, even with your co-workers. And you can’t learn anything about it, either.
Former president Donald Trump in Manhattan criminal court with his legal team as jury selection continues Thursday. There is no trial in recent history, or possibly all of American history, that can rival the one underway in Lower Manhattan. For the first time, a former president is facing a jury on charges that he committed multiple felonies — and not just any former president, but probably the most polarizing former president the United States has ever seen.
That’s the first aspect of the bubble in which the Trump jurors will live for the unknown duration of the trial: They will need to be careful about what they read or watch — more careful, really, than my fellow jurors or I ever needed to be. The Astor trial, as it was known, was covered, but mostly by papers in the city and rarely, if ever, as a focus of national cable news coverage.
One juror — an alternate, if I remember correctly — was dismissed for reading the New York Post in the jury room. Old habits die hard, I suppose, but this was very much not in keeping with trying to maintain that bubble. Even in the jury room, we weren’t allowed to talk about the evidence until we reached the point of deliberation, much less read news about it.
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