Subject: Re: The Right to a Speedy Trial
The jury pool is drawn from a biased pool of registered voters in the district of Manhattan, voters who voted 90% for Biden.

Irrelevant, since the 10% who didn’t is still 800,000 people, more than enough to empanel a jury of 18. But wait! As it turns out, roughly 3 million people voted in New York City in the 2020 election, out of more than 6 million who are eligible. So you could pick your 18 jurors from almost 4 million people. I think it could be done. (More to the point: the defendant is known in every corner of the country, so no matter where you go you’re going to have some kind of problem. Change of venue isn’t going to make it go away.)

Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter being…

So now we decide what can happen in this country based on our relatives? By that standard, that Kennedy guy can’t run for President, right? I thought we were a nation of “individuals”?

Gag order applying only to the defense

He was the only one mouthing off.

the time of the trial was political

No, the justice system has been trying to get these various and sundry CRIMINAL trials going for a very long time. It is the defendant who has pushed it to this point. He has been successful in three out of four, and that might be enough. It should be clear he only wants to delay them so he can pardon himself, the first time in history that particular gambit will have been used.

That’s probably because there has never been anyone as corrupt as him, and that includes a lot of presidential history.