Feds Want To Ask Trump Jurors If 2020 Election Was 'Stolen'

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[Brilliant]

Florida federal prosecutors want to ask potential jurors in Donald Trump's classified documents case if they believe the 2020 election was "stolen" and if they hold opinions about how the FBI executed a highly publicized search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago resort...

Prosecutors also want to ask potential jurors how much media coverage they have seen or read about the case, if they have any opinions about Trump's public statements about the case or about special counsel Jack Smith, and if they believe the prosecution is "unfair" or if any of the defendants are "being treated unfairly by the court system." The defense has objected to those questions, the filing shows.

Highlighting the politically charged nature of the case, prosecutors objected to a set of questions proposed by the defense asking jurors if they are registered to vote, whether they vote with a particular party affiliation, and whether they voted in the 2020 election. Neither side objected to a question asking whether jurors had displayed a bumper sticker or magnet on their car in the last five years...

The defense also objected to a set of questions asking jurors if they would be concerned about how friends and family would react to them serving on this jury or if they had any "opinions or concerns about a former president of the United States being charged with a crime."

Prosecutors are seeking to ask jurors if they have "ever changed your mind about an important decision you had to make in your life," to which the defense objects...

[T.B. Yoits]

The judge would have responded: "How does the First Amendment apply here? You put the damned bumper sticker(s) on your car for the whole world to see."

I would then respond, "Did the defendant see the sticker? Did the other jurors see the sticker? You have no right to ask me my religion and if you ask me about the John 3:16 bumper sticker on my car, then you'll find out about Austin 3:16 and some other judge will be hearing this case."

[HamiltonJay]

That’s not how it works.

Both prosecuting and defense attorneys have a certain number of VETOs for a juror for any reason.

Yes, of course they want to stack the deck, and Trump is never going to get an impartial jury in a deep blue district.

[tennmountainman]

This is how you rig a Jury.

[sauropod]

Because gubbermint asking that question is chilling.

[SunkenCiv]

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[GOPJ]

We need to ask jurors if they voted for Biden. That’s bias.