Clearing Up Trump Trial Misinformation

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(06-04-2024, 07:43 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The cognitive dissonance on this board never fails to impress.  We have constant conversations about the ability of professional jurists to remain politically impartial.  Every thread on a SCOTUS decision has one side or the other lambasting certain justices for being partisan actors.  Yet you think among residents of a county in which 86.8% of residents voted for Biden over Trump that you can find twelve impartial, amateur jury members who will completely discount their partisan leanings and judge a case based solely on its merits?

Just so we're clear, professional judges are not capable of being impartial, but twelve rando's from Manhattan definitely are?

Source for election results.

https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/new-york/

If 86.8% of people in the area voted for Biden over Trump, wouldn't that mean that, given a random sample of 12 people from that area, between 1 and 2 people would be part of that 13.2% that did not vote for Biden over Trump? And that's before the selection process occurs, which probably eliminated a fair amount of that 86.8%.

I get that it's a highly blue area, but highly blue does not mean 100%. It is statistically likely that at least 1 to 2, and potentially even more, of the people on that jury were Trump supporters and even they agreed that he committed these crimes.

Or, Trump's lawyers totally screwed up the selection process and allowed 12 dyed in blue liberals onto the jury.