“Are the jurors being sequestered with no access to news?”
NO! The defense wanted them sequestered from the beginning but the judge wouldn’t do it. The defense asked again for sequestering while they deliberate. The judge said he gave them instructions not to watch the news. GOOD GRIEF! as if the NEWS is the ONLY place where information comes out.
The judge did say if there is a guilty verdict they may have grounds for appeal based on Maxine’s statement.
And Biden has put his 2 cents out today.
Biden White House officially supports making DC the 51st state
For far too long, the more than 700,000 people of Washington, D.C., have been deprived of full representation in the U.S. Congress,” the White House OMB statement said. “This taxation without representation and denial of self-governance is an affront to the democratic values on which our nation was founded.
“H.R. 51 rights this wrong by making Washington, D.C., a state and providing its residents with long overdue full representation in Congress, while maintaining a federal district that will continue to serve as our nation’s seat of government.”
D.C. officials and Democrats have framed the statehood issue as a civil rights matter for residents who have been historically disenfranchised. But Republicans have been firmly against D.C. statehood, calling it an unconstitutional Democratic power grab designed to shift control in the Senate by adding two senators from a liberal stronghold.
Republicans argue the federal enclave’s establishment is constitutionally based, so any change to the district must come in the form of a constitutional amendment – not legislation from Congress. They’ve raised concerns over the 23rd Amendment, which gave the District three electoral votes in the presidential Electoral College and whether statehood could be granted before its repeal
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-white-house-supports-making-dc-the-51st-state