Jury selection in the case begins next week.
NEW YORK — Prospective jurors for former President Donald Trump’s upcoming criminal trial in Manhattan won’t be asked if they are a Republican or a Democrat, but they will be questioned about whether they are a member of the Proud Boys or the QAnon movement.
In a seven-page order, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he would ask the questions only of jurors who haven’t initially self-identified as unable to be fair and impartial and who don’t have another reason to believe they can’t serve on the jury.And though Trump’s lawyers had urged Merchan to probe prospective jurors about their political affiliations, he rejected that request.
Prospective jurors must also answer a similar series of questions about their interactions with “anti-Trump” groups, although the questionnaire doesn’t define or provide examples of such groups. Merchan will also ask prospective jurors more broadly about their feelings about Trump being on trial, including asking them whether they have any “strong opinions or firmly held beliefs” about whether a former president may be criminally charged in state court, and whether they have opinions “about how Mr. Trump is being treated in this case.”And they must disclose whether their media diet includes any of about a dozen sources, including Fox News, Newsmax, Truth Social or TikTok.
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