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“The jury composition was also challenging,” Turley added. “In a city that voted over 90% for Clinton, this was a nightmare jury pool. The judge also rejected requests to bar a couple jurors who raised legitimate concerns over their objectivity for the prosecution.”In one instance during jury selection, Cooper overruled prosecutors’ objections to seating a man who had donated to Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, noting the prospective juror had “expressed a high degree of confidence” that he could be impartial."
"The full jury panel contains 11 women and five men.
Many of the members of the broader jury pool, as well as some selected for the jury itself, expressed strong disdain for former President Donald Trump and/or support for Clinton. Most said they hadn't heard of the Sussmann case until the judge told them about it last week.
“I remembered that the 2016 election was kind of a mess and that there were a lot of shenanigans,” one of the selected jurors told the court. She said she “strongly” disliked Trump and said she didn’t think she could be impartial if this case about someone on his team, but that “I think if it’s not directly about Trump” then she could be impartial.
Another selected juror, a man who works for the Treasury Department, said he had donated money to the Democratic side during the 2016 primaries, but said he believed he could be fair. He was also aware that Robby Mook — one of the names listed on a jury questionnaire — had worked for the Clinton campaign (Mook was the campaign manager).
An additional juror, this one an attorney... claimed she couldn’t recall if she had donated money during the 2016, but said if she had it would’ve been to Clinton. She did donate money in 2020. The juror said that she “certainly had a strong preference for one candidate over the other” but that she believed she could be impartial.
The nation’s capital — and thus many of its jury pools — is overwhelmingly Democratic. Clinton received 90.9% of the vote, while Trump received 4.1% in 2016, and President Joe Biden got 92.1% while Trump received 5.4% in 2020.
Also among the Sussmann jurors are a former gymnast who is unemployed but a teacher by training, a medical illustrator, a mechanic, an employee of the Council on Foreign Relations, a worker for the Peace Corps, and a government contractor, among others."