Judge pressing jurors to see if they are impartial

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(04-15-2024, 11:56 PM)Dill Wrote: I'd phrase it this way: Finding a juror who will disregard law and fact to help Trump will be harder in Manhattan. That won't stop some from trying.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wing-broadcaster-asks-trump-fans-183107043.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKa4z9g4yoTzriqyrjHj3EndDc8aViKTfB-j5XhFHFjOqLXDyiM8sxUYJ-VGn_9PoK-w8MSFsG3hEQQs1clK-zlekKit9uMq0P9LJvn8rAqfK9zng7ugZo4kCrqD9Qf4N_xkaFykeGf_oxX2yFTHbbCS28Wkl2adpURljjz1KTho


There may be a better explanation as to why they waited, "they" being Trump and his DOJ. 

The key reason the DOJ didn’t prosecute Trump’s hush money case[/color]
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/key-reason-doj-didnt-prosecute-trumps-hush-money-case-rcna75887

. . . they actually found . . . Cohen acted at Trump’s direction and to Trump’s benefit. Why didn’t prosecutors pursue the matter further? According to Geoffrey Berman — the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, who wrote a book about his experiences — it’s because there was political interference from other Trump appointees who ordered prosecutors to end their investigation.

Indeed, according to Berman’s book, then-Attorney General Bill Barr not only intervened in the case, he tried to kill the ongoing investigation and even suggested that Cohen’s conviction should be reversed.

The GOP committee chairs wrote yesterday that federal prosecutors “determined that no additional people would be charged alongside Cohen,” but they conveniently overlooked why they made that determination.

It wasn’t because of a thorough review of the law; it was because Trump’s attorney general told them to stop — because in the previous administration, the brazen politicization of federal law enforcement was the norm.
Were Jordan, Comer, and Steil unaware of these details, or did they simply choose not to care?

Barr was a very busy DOJ. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/nyregion/geoffrey-berman-william-barr-michael-cohen.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/justice-department-lends-its-firepower-to-defend-trump-in-investigations-into-his-private-finances/2019/10/03/e05c65f4-e542-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html

The thing is, if you lie and say you have no feelings about Trump and they look at your social media and see you are a MAGA fan lying to get on the jury and save Trump, isn't that a felony?  I guess the idea is that you'd save Trump and he'd pardon you when he wins in 2024, or something?

Maybe I'm over-generalizing here, but I feel like Trump is the first presidential candidate where people might be thinking "I can do illegal things to help him, and he'll pardon me after he wins."