Special counsel Jack Smith does not want potential jurors to be asked how they voted in the 2020 presidential election — but he does want the court to ask them whether or not they feel that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department has treated former President Donald Trump “fairly.”
According to a report published Thursday by The Washington Examiner, attorneys for the former president had called for jurors to be asked about their political party affiliations in addition to whether or not they cast a vote in 2020.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon asked for both Smith’s team and Trump’s to submit a jury questionnaire — which would allow the court to pre-screen potential jurors and rule out those who could not view the case in an objective manner — by Wednesday, and it was immediately clear that the two sides were at loggerheads over a few of the possible questions.
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