How Did They Choose a Jury for A President?

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[@LegalEagle]

Will Trump beat the rap? ☕ Get your first bag free with Trade Coffee legaleagle.link/trade ⚖⚖⚖Do you need a great lawyer? I can help! legaleagle.link/eagleteam

[@davea6314]

Trump for PRISON 2024!!!

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Are you practicing with lawyers who can work outside the US or is your firm US-only? Asking for a Canadian.

[@AL-lh2ht]

Trump basically called the judge a bbich. And then threaten the judges daughter. Several times and even after he was asked to stop. There is no reality the judge would not give prison time if convicted.

[@Harlem55]

What is the governments subject matter jurisdiction argument as to Trump v. Anderson such thst the mere conduct of a trial at the current time is not then illegal under federal law because of the impact on campaign speech? Or do we order Joe Biden not to engage in any election speech whatsoever on trial days? Or do we set aside any Biden victory in 2024 upon grounds New York deliberately undermined the federal election process? In any event, Im sure Roberts and Co. are about to internationally embarass the New York courts for not knowing the federal law.

[@PickpocketJones]

He's too wealthy and given way too much preferential treatment to face any real consequences for his actions. In Georgia he has a GOP activist judge doing everything she can to ensure he faces no consequences. So not optimistic.

[@shivanshukantprasad]

LegalEagle and ScowlOwl. We are forming a JudiciaryAviary here.

[@PurpleShift42]

An Aviary of Attorneys, you might say

[@Ramonatho]

Did someone mention BIRD LAW????

[@slimjimshady0]

now we just need Misdemeanor Oriele or sm

[@witchdoctor1394]

Can we get a Darrow Sparrow tho?

[@kereymckenna4611]

Who else can we get? A Judgy Budgie?

[@loganmiller2344]

Bird lawyers to add: Gavel Goose, Deposition Duck, Plaintiff Pelican, Opposition Ostrich, Courtroom Condor Edit to add: “The Bailiff will Tackle You Cockatoo”

[@Malocalypse]

Deposition duck 😅

[@thomasbecker9676]

Harvey Birdman

[@kombatwombat6579]

Opposition Ostrich terrifies me.

[@Giraffinator]

Courtroom Condor kinda hit real good tho

[@CdnTrader1]

“I’m just the best god damn Bird lawyer in the world” Charlie Kelly

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

0:36 "If you haven't been following the build-up of this case..." Me: You should get in touch with the Court as a potential juror?

[@DPSSOC]

We found 12 people who've been living in complete isolation for decades. When asked if they knew who Donald Trump was, they responded, "Who are you!? How did you find us!?"

[@terranceandrewdavis7070]

​@@DPSSOCwouldn't mormons fit that criteria?

[@draketurtle4169]

@@terranceandrewdavis7070however, Mormons don’t think a juror of only one religious order would really work… it’s like putting a bunch of white guys on the jury for a black guy, that’s blatantly not fair.

[@weirdlanguageguy]

@@terranceandrewdavis7070 there might be some polygamist fundamentalists for whom that could be true, but not for 99.9% of all latter day saints

[@kuil]

@@terranceandrewdavis7070lol no. That would be the Amish. Most Mormons would support Trump politically, less so personally.

[@nicholaszikos3851]

“Your honor the juror in question called my client orange” - lawyer “sustained your client is orange, moving on” - judge

[@blueyandicy]

LOL

[@Shebeast3]

hahahahahaha so good

[@publiconions6313]

Orange man bad

[@soul0360]

No... Orange man orange

[@publiconions6313]

@@soul0360 dude.. be careful, you're supposed to say "bad" .. you don't want to lose any friends or get an F from your professor

[@EvHervey]

Eagle got day shift Owl got night shift We're covered, people.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

So...Birds are real; they're just lawyers, is what I'm hearing.

[@adamh1228]

@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 preposterous. if it flies, it spies.

[@camiloiribarren1450]

But we need one bird to put order in the court, a tough squawker that doesn’t chirp away

[@DualFury]

They only know Bird Law

[@adamh1228]

@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 lol, my bird related comment got censored.. we are getting too close to the truth

[@culsandar]

The image of Devin coming out of the bottom of the screen while Spencer is discussing "the person who needs to be the smartest person in the room, even if they aren't" got a hearty chuckle out of me. Well done editor.

[@Palidine4M0O]

i loved it

[@travcollier]

And yet, these folks provide some of the best legal news coverage there is. Very much "take your work seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously"... Love it.

[@jae1567]

Same!

[@richardchantlerrico]

I had a good chuckle over it

[@adamkuch9377]

Objection! A jury that is awake and sane is not a jury of his peers.

[@MrVovansim]

Heyooo. I was just thinking, how would his lawyers like it if they saw Bush, Clinton and Obama roll up into the jury box. Haha

[@Depacote]

Closer to being his peers than they are to being Biden's peers

[@elizabethsohler6516]

Sustained.

[@ALCRAN2010]

a jury or peers, and a jury of peeers, are two different peoples.

[@MrVovansim]

@@ALCRAN2010 get R Kelly on that jury. He'd be a peer peeer.

[@Vlasov45]

The idea of a "jury of your peers" comes from the Magna Carta, but the phrase doesn't actually appear in the U.S. Constitution. Instead what we have is a right to "an impartial jury" drawn from the surrounding region. There's an interesting question in whether "impartial" means "disinterested," because "partial" is derived from the same Latin root as is the word "peer."' So it is inconsistent to require a jury to be impartial and then also require it to be made up of peers. In old English cases they would often have to import a jury from your local area, made up of people who would be familiar with you, and expected to know something about your character, reputation, local standing, and local habits and norms.

[@elizabethsohler6516]

Thanks for the education.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

Peer also means of the same rank (within an aristocratic caste system). It wasn't until *2009* that members of the House of Lords in the UK were required to be tried in the normal UK court system. It changed in the wake of controversy after a Lord got out of (iirc) a vehicular manslaughter charge because his jury had to be made up of the rest of the house of Lords, naturally leading to a not guilty verdict

[@cshairydude]

​​@@AbsolXGuardianThis is untrue: trial of peers in the House of Lords was abolished in 1948. The last such trial was indeed for vehicular manslaughter. Also it's considered disqualifying now if a juror knows the defendant, because it's assumed they are biased by their prior knowledge.

[@asdfghyter]

if it was the case, he should obviously have gotten a jury consisting of former presidents 🤣

[@caffetiel]

Being from the same root doesn't mean the words mean the same thing. By that logic you wouldn't be able to say 'non-brown bear' is coherent.

[@JeremyCoatney]

"May we live in interesting times"? How dare you curse us like this sir 😭

[@mickcollins1921]

just here to see if someone caught that...

[@atashgallagher5139]

Hopefully we can just all get into another multi country rocket measuring contest again and see who can put the most people on Mars or something instead of who can put the most megatons of thermonuclear warheads on a parabolic arc towards one hemisphere or the other.

[@CielMC]

Tangent : Nice flag

[@mochafennec]

​@@atashgallagher5139 I believe you are failing to recall that the Space Race and Cuban Missile Crisis were happening at the same time.

[@low-energypolitics5677]

I've heard so many people talk about Trump snoozing across PodCasts, KZbin videos, and more traditional news. How was this my first time hearing an anti-woke pun?!

[@arturoaguilar6002]

I think Trump doesn't use the term "woke" (and "anti-woke") anymore. He even mentioned he doesn't like the term "woke" because half the people can't even define it and he doesn't know what it is.

[@MrClickity]

​@@arturoaguilar6002"woke" means the same thing as every other right wing buzzword: "something we don't like"

[@Gildedmuse]

​@@arturoaguilar6002Just to note, when he said that, DeSantis was using the word CONSTANTLY and was Trump's rival for the Republican nominee. Indeed, days later he used it in a speech, rallying against woke politics.

[@lysander3262]

"I'm so anti woke. No one is more anti woke than me. Even Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe and Lazy Eye Rick can agree on that. I hear it all the time. And the thing about being anti woke is...ZZZzzz..."

[@CitanulsPumpkin]

​@MrClickity Historically, Woke means "being aware of how society has stacked the deck against you and people like you." "Get woke," means "Wake up. They're ain't playing fair. We can't either." When the nazis co-opted woke, they used it exclusively to say, "A thing I saw acknowledged that people who are not cis het white evangelical men exist." "Anything the nazis don't like" is close, but they have been using it to mean something far more specific. "Representation of the denominations they want to genocide." That's why they can't come out and say the definition.

[@RichardBetel]

The huge diversity of American lawyers struggling and failing to pronounce the French word "voir" is one of my guilty pleasures.

[@cynthiasimpson931]

I've been on some juries, including one for a murder/arson case. It's always very interesting, at least to me, to watch the process of seating a jury. In the murder/arson case, a name was called, and a heavily pregnant woman got herself to her feet and headed for the jury box. The judge asked her, "When's your baby due?" The woman said, "Last week!" She was immediately excused. After a few hours I ended up an alternate juror for that case. The defendant was found guilty of arson, but they never proved that she had killed the victim. I don't live in New York so there's no chance I'll be called for Trump's jury.

[@johndododoe1411]

Man seems to be prosecuted all over the place, still got a chance if you hadn't posted this .

[@rdklkje13]

I came to the comments to see if anyone had said anything about that option of volunteering for jury duty in New York. This is the closest I've seen so far. The thing is, having also been a juror in a pretty sad criminal case myself, I imagine it could be an interesting and educational experience for law students in particular, as long as volunteering for jury duty doesn't land you on some crazy long case that takes up too much of your time and energy. i was a student when I served on that jury and it was quite doable. Much more so than later on with little kids at home etc. and interesting enough that I may well have considered volunteering if that had been an option, with the possibility of setting some limits yourself on what exactly you are able to volunteer for in terms of trial length (and intensity - I couldn't do murder cases, for example).

[@tonyscottandre]

8:07 nice job editor!!! Sneaking legal eagle in the questionnaire "what new do you watch" top notch

[@Studeb]

Maybe it was there already.

[@veri745]

@@Studeb they did a good job, but not a great one. the motion tracking is off just a touch

[@oriontigley5089]

Haha, I didn't even notice that. Good eye

[@NelsonBrown]

But why was blank in the original? What did they delete?

[@ReverendTed]

Yeah, interesting that there's a blank space on the original document.

[@TheGamehorn]

It is nice to see the ScowlOwl getting more comfortable on camera. He already is very good at coveying information, but I am looking forward to when he gets more comfortable finding the absurdity and humor in the situations he covers! Keep up the good work Legal Eagles and Owls!

[@beebuzz959]

I am a strong liberal who despises the orange con, but I would be completely impartial if on one of his juries, devoting myself to the legal system above all else. It really is possible.

[@greebj]

Yep. If he's gonna get done, he has to be done properly, because of course he'll appeal any conviction

[@Wellch]

Move it out of the state.

[@CascadeTwelve]

Scowl Owl's pacing and tone have improved substantially over previous videos! Great to see he's found a good vibe on camera 😊

[@MrHeems]

He sounds a bit drunk to me.

[@stevenperry9762]

An eagle and an owl? We are flying in the legal stratosphere this morning.

[@afroponix3414]

Birds aren’t real.

[@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa]

​@@afroponix3414Neither is Ohio, checkmate atheists

[@thebagelsproductions]

Devious field mice beware! Legal birds of prey are in the air 😂

[@brianbishop4753]

@@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaaoh shit! Then where am I?

[@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv]

Few birds reach that altitude. No raptor does. Geese might be the only such bird.

[@Drivr555]

Re: volunteering for jury duty. The statement, "I guess that's one way to pass the time." made me chuckle. 😄

[@addymant]

8:11 Love that y'all edited "Legal Eagle" on to the list of media sources

[@chrishyde7798]

16:41 "Smartest dude in the room" pop up, hilarious!

[@piritskenyer]

I want to congratulate Spencer on becoming a dad, that joke at 6:05 gives it away without the shadow of a doubt.

[@JammyPajammies]

"Beyond reasonable doubt detected, welcome to fatherhood."

[@John_Fx]

I love that LegalEagle was listed in the media sources on the questionnaire. You went down in history!

[@dcdfuzed5878]

I didn't see KZbin on there so I thought they just replaced it with LegalEagle.

[@cvtuttle]

@@dcdfuzed5878 yeah it's just added in - hysterical though!

[@NelsonBrown]

LegalEagle is edited in, but there's a conspicuous blank spot in the original document, and I don't know why.

[@cvtuttle]

@@NelsonBrown I thought it was just to separate the larger media companies from the rest.

[@feronanthus9756]

@@NelsonBrown it separates traditional media from social/aggregated media

[@travispalen3107]

@16:35 boom roasted Side note - Scowl Owl and Chaos Lawyer are really helping to up this channel's expansive explanatory abilities. Thank you for bringing them on board and letting them be themselves - I really appreciate the analysis of these larger legal issues from multiple voices/perspectives.

[@GH-oi2jf]

"Jury of Peers," despite its common usage, appears nowhere in US or NY law. The US Constitution guarantees an "impartial jury," and NY law requires juries to be selected by an unbiased process.

[@kate7649]

True, but the language does stem from the Magna Carta and has been paraphrased in cases pertaining to the 6th Amendment (and as my ConLaw prof will tell you-every time the Supreme Court releases an opinion, the Constitution is altered due to changes in interpretation). So “jury of peers” may not literally be in the Constitution from a pure textualist perspective but it does have some origins historically and in 6th Amendment precedent (:

[@rockdocandlittlebird5974]

I live under a rock and I've still heard about it. (No really, my name in undergrad was "the rock whisperer" and as a grad student they called me "the volcano lady")

[@blueyandicy]

THE VOLCANO LADY IS LEGENDARY

[@rockdocandlittlebird5974]

@@blueyandicy Look for me at RadCon next year, I'll be bringing my second book and teaching some fun classes. I'm thinking crafting drop spindles, maybe an intro to spinning, historic embroidery, prepping for the zombie apocalyptic, the evolution of life on earth (and how it's super effing weird), and how volcanoes are definitely going to cause said apocalypse if we don't beat them to it.

[@mandytheythem4778]

Was literally just talking about this topic with my lawyer dad and my mom who had been on a federal jury lol. Good timing.

[@geeksworkshop]

People with a massive ego like Trump have no peers

[@Dan55888]

Are they smart enough to know that Trump is guilty?

[@VultureSkins]

@@Dan55888what a weird question

[@teeprice7499]

@@Dan55888 Until proven innocent?

[@somerandomgamer8504]

​@@teeprice7499Good luck proving a criminal innocent. Though America has an interesting record with that, looking at the overwhelming, damning evidence against OJ Simpson.

[@AnacondaHL]

16:30 This stray fire from shade thrown lmao 😂😂😂

[@daiakunin]

The scowl owl is hitting us hard with the dad jokes! The coffee segue was also brilliant.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:20 - Chapter 1 - The jury selection process 3:25 - Chapter 2 - Who are the potential jurors 5:25 - Chapter 3 - A fair & impartial jury 11:05 - Chapter 4 - Challenges 19:05 - Back to LE 22:00 - End roll ads

[@CandleWisp]

Thanks!

[@woohzal]

Not even American yet I too fall into your "Hey, what now?" category.

[@muyyek]

Great video, gents, and may I say, the segue at the end was particularly good today.

[@009013M3]

The timestamp covered part of the thumbnail text so it said "JURY OF PEE" and I had to explain to my coworkers why I was laughing so hard.

[@LtScarecrow87]

What scares me is that both sides seem to take great delight in talking about the jurors for different reasons. I feel like that needs to stop.

[@oriontigley5089]

Absolutely 100% Impartial means *impartial!*

[@LtScarecrow87]

The justice system is the only thing I believe in anymore…I don’t want to see it politicized for either personal gain or because the shoe is finally on the other foot when it comes to public mocking.

[@timbirch4999]

bOtH sIdEs...

[@LtScarecrow87]

@@timbirch4999 ?

[@Brasswatchman]

The media has been overdoing it. Didn't one reporter basically dox a guy?

[@Baiswith]

16:35 Spencer throwing the shade back at Devon after the 'don't trust a prosecuter' crack I see 🤣

[@dennisfahey2379]

The Devin digs were priceless.

[@steveaustin2686]

16:35 really made me laugh. Good job Scowl Owl. :)

[@TUBESTOOL]

You should do an episode on how different the justice system is for the rich and powerful. The most frustrating thing about this is how different these people are treated and how fines are only for poor people.

[@bobkerr2755]

The rich aren't exactly above the law per se, it's just that they can afford to sit in court for years on end while a poor person can't. Also a 5k fine for a billionaire is nothing but a 5k fine for someone who works for a living is a major kick in the teeth. Personally, I think fines should be a percentage of your anual income instead of just a flat fee. I think that would go a long way in starting to level out the playing field.

[@Dan55888]

Right? If someone less high profile as Trump did even a quarter of the things he did they would already be in jail for a long time. But Trump with all his ill got money and lies about money just drags it out until he can worm his way out on technicalities

[@evercuriousmichelle]

I agree, fines should be a percentage of annual income!!

[@LavenderGooms]

@@bobkerr2755 That's being above the law. It's designed that way, to make sure that rich people aren't being hurt by it.

[@bobkerr2755]

@@LavenderGooms Correct, hence the "per se". The law applies to everyone but it's only really enforced with people who can't afford a dream team of high priced lawyers.

[@randomactpg57]

As a Canadian, having to pick a party when you register to vote is insane.

[@Krushak8888]

You don't have to, I haven't in my state. I could vote in either primary but only one primary.

[@detleffleischer9418]

I agree, as a Mexican it's a weird thing to order people to do, at least in our case you can "affiliate" yourself to a political party separately and even become a militant or Party Officer but there's no way you should be forced to choose a party from the get go, in fact you're even allowed to register a non-vote or vote of no confidence in the government by writing so on your ballot.

[@AgentofChaos315]

I mean you don't need to pick, you can just leave it blank

[@lightdrgn20]

Many states in the USA have a primary that limits voters to their registered party. The regular elecrions don't matter for that

[@dojelnotmyrealname4018]

as a Belgian, registering to vote at all is insane.

[@SianaGearz]

As a prospective juror, would one be forced to reveal all social media accounts? Do you have to reveal your log-ins so they can search your friends-only posts? I would object to an invasion of privacy if i was subjected to that, am i entitled to? Or is all they can find using your real name and public-only posts good enough? I probably have 80+ forum accounts which i no longer even remember, most people have a throwaway account on Reddit which they used to ask a potentially embarassing question, etc.

[@beccatorres]

The editing of this is brilliant. So well done.

[@cmdraftbrn]

42 questions? to life. the universe. EVERYTHING!

[@NotParticularlyWitty]

Immediately thought of the 30 Rock Leia bit. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

[@Respectable_Username]

Great overview, Scowl Owl! Really liked both the context and the way it was presented 😊

[@lesleyghostdragon3149]

Love you guys and how you interject humorous tidbits into your in depth coverage of serious issues. Excellence appreciated 🦉⚖🦅

[@maryhales4595]

I work for the public defender in Missouri - we frequently hear the deviant pronunciation of voir dire in my office. 😅

[@kellyalvarado6533]

😂😅 Let me guess . . . somewhere south of I-70?

[@kylebeatty7643]

2:33 oh, come on! You could have gone with I'm just an ordinary space chicken country lawyer a la Futurama

[@emperorbailey]

There are so few of us on this side of the galaxy.

[@jimhalloway5299]

"May we live in interesting times" Nice Discworld reference, Spencer!

[@Mkayyyyyyy]

I was literally wondering this question yesterday, thank you!

[@FilmFactry]

You can't find 12 X-presidents who wee former billionaire reality show celebrities? I can count 6 of them on one hand.

[@chrisriley2321]

Imagine if that was possible lol

[@jimsackmanbusinesscoaching1344]

Have an extra finger, eh?

[@TheJshox]

What's it like having more than 5 fingers on one hand?

[@babotond]

most people can't. how many fingers do you have?

[@foofoothegreat]

Someone tell Inigo Montoya. We found him.

[@prestokrevlar]

Today on LegalEagle: Things get a little French, and a little deviant.

[@PotofGlue]

??

[@XerrolAvengerII]

​@@PotofGlue voir dire my friend

[@maninblk]

I really enjoy this channel. It has a good sense of humor. Thank you. Oh, and you learn a lot. :)

[@DumbSkippy]

Following from Western Australia. I do enjoy your videos! Thank You!

[@GeekCredTrivia]

They should resurrect 1920's robber barons for the jurry

[@kieranelliott5607]

Wouldn't fit, some of them at least had dignity.

[@YarPirates-vy7iv]

​@@kieranelliott5607that's a stretch

[@92HazelMocha]

I mean if the allegations are true, 1800's snake oil salesmen would be a better fit

[@esc8engn]

to get the peers?

[@GeekCredTrivia]

@@esc8engn yes

[@MagicScientist]

8:10 I see what you did there. I had to go look up the real questions to make sure that was an edit lol

[@idahomike4254]

I love the "Sacko punishment" clip at 9:02. Truly a The League fan. LMFAO!

[@quittison]

I love it when LegalEagle cameos in his own videos

[@theonlygus]

LOL your editor added legal eagle to the list of news sources for the jury! Love that Easter Egg

[@joshuazhong2520]

At 8:12 one of the news sources is changed to LegalEagle lol

[@williesnyder2899]

Great rundown of the process!

[@pfrancescutti]

That segway to Trade Coffee sponsor...Bravo, golf clap, chef's kiss

[@WisdomLearner]

Was helping my co-worker with her case digest assignment for law school when this came up. My head is tired but Legal Eagle seems to make it somewhat fun to study law.

[@olympuce1]

Excellent explanation from Scowlowl! Thank you for the video, the process and implications are much more clear now!

[@charlesvaughan3517]

Thanks for covering this I was wondering

[@lexicobbs8547]

Love these videos! As a law student, I’d love to see more diverse guest lawyers from time to time!

[@dylan6588]

@LegalEagle Devin, I need to know where you got your emerald tie! Also thanks for making these videos you’ve helped me understand our legal system so much better than I did before!

[@emperorbailey]

It was probably in honor of that juror from the Emerald Isle. 😉

[@MephieStopheles]

try your favorite search engine: green pin dot satin tie plenty out there to choose from

[@ZackdasBohne]

3:36 other countries actually rely on volunteers for jury duty. But then again there are less of them per trial and they can do things like ask the witnesses questions which makes it way more appealing to them I imagine.

[@DSzaks]

LOL the passive aggressive Devin popping up when in the corner when talking about overthinkers. I love it!

[@gordonwho]

Love the reference to "The League"!

[@ecbrown6151]

His peers are currently serving their sentences, impossible to seat them on a jury. Tears in my eyes

[@christiebreeechelon]

I think his peers are former presidents. I think they should get Bush, Clinton, and Obama to come judge him. 😂

[@liabowden8526]

Was thinking along similar lines,​@@christiebreeechelon

[@joshrepik]

@@christiebreeechelonthey’d never. The eye of scrutiny might then be turned on them.

[@mistersquirrel0]

His peers are in pre-K thus ineligible to serve as jurors.

[@joshrepik]

@@mistersquirrel0 funny, are you or have you ever been worth billions? Likely not. Those are and have been his peers for decades. Now he’s been president. His worst day outperforms any of my best days and yours as well. He’s a public figure and you can have whatever opinion you want of him, but it’s very clear that his dissenters opinion is based on envy. The man is an enigma. These are unmatched and scary times. The presidency and judicial system are systematically trying to eliminate their political rival for two reasons: they cannot beat him honestly, and they are TERRIFIED that a second trump admin will bring the skeletons out of the closet. I have never once heard a compelling defense of Joe Biden. Nobody even tries really

[@bingo5694]

the digs at Devon were perfection

[@MorimotoRei]

I always think of the movie Runaway Jury whenever jury selection comes up. You never really see this stage in crime shows/movies. Would love to see a react video to this movie.

[@iamnill_real]

Owl is really getting better at his youtube presenting, it's cool to see growth!

[@HanMasho]

I was called for jury duty once where the judge allowed anyone to opt out no-questions-asked because the trial was likely to last several months and had something to do with child abuse.

[@andrewjgrimm]

They didn’t say no questions asked in my case (child abuse material) but when I said I wasn’t fit, they didn’t ask any questions.

[@omegamkx588]

8:05 I guess the NY court is a big fan of this channel!

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@EffKayDownSouth]

6:04 OMG. You went there! Thank you for the laugh.

[@cyberrb25]

3:48 yikes that's an issue. In a sane country with sane election procedures (if you consider a country where people could be charged for felony for trying to vote just so the votes are disqualified, you do you, but let's be serious), everyone is qualified for voting, without needing to apply to it. And local voting polls select people at random to oversee the voting procedure. And it's **important** that it is random, so people could not try and fish for tables to overturn the results in the ballot. That's why my country's voting procedure is not only great, but also fast (most times, we get the results by the end of the day).

[@TheBrothergreen]

Or you could have a redundant system that will be almost impossible to tamper with without a) getting yourself arrested and b) not materially impacting the election at all. Just saying. Random doesn't equal trustworthy.

[@joshrepik]

The best recommendation I’ve heard is from Vivek: single day voting as a federal holiday, paper ballots, voter ID confirmed at the polling location. Mail in ballots by necessity only. We’d have fair and honest elections again. Anyone that says voter ID is discriminatory or racist is the racist, because black people are in fact NOT too stupid to find the DMV

[@TheBrothergreen]

@@joshrepik You say "we'd have fair and honest elections again" and yet 2020 was not only the most secure election in history according to trump's own people, but it was independently spot checked 8 times and every single one came out within a couple hundred votes. Even cyber ninjas didn't find evidence of fraud. So WTFrog are you talking about?

[@IrrelevantPride]

​@joshrepik the argument is not they're too stupid to find a dmv, you're just strawmanning the argument. That said a voter id that is giving out for free and a federal holiday for election day would go a long way to help.

[@Wirespeed91]

​@@joshrepikVoter ID requirements are fine... if an ID is free and you can get one easily. The reason that many Voter ID requirements get struck down as discriminatory is because there is no way to get one for free (making it effectively a Poll Tax) and/or its made super difficult for people to get the free ID.

[@CAMarg-zs1xq]

If he is entitled to a jury of his peers and we are nitpicking peers..... This means that every ex-convict that is back up for another charge better have a jury full of ex-convicts, every sovereign citizen better have a jury full of sovereign citizens, every poor person better have a jury full of people living below the poverty line, every minority better have a jury where the majority of the jury is at least 50% of whatever minority they are, every trans person needs to have a jury with a minority percentage of the way they identify, etc

[@joshuacollins9316]

That’s not the way the word “peers” is interpreted legally. It typically means people that simply live in the surrounding area as the defendant.

[@mkgaming5823]

@@joshuacollins9316 But what if a rich person lives in a area with only rich people?

[@Ramonatho]

Yeah the whole "peers" thing has fundamentally changed from the intention it was written with.

[@joshuacollins9316]

@@mkgaming5823 then they would get a jury of rich people lol

[@stainedsteel1]

@0:49 That had me rolling!

[@HarvestStore]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@StAugustine6]

Thank you for trying to answer a question that has been spinning through my mind every time T gets brought up. If I could make a suggestion, could this channel please go over what is considered contempt of court and what is not? And what the penalties for such actually are? The way I see it, violating a Gag Order is contempt of court at the very least, but perhaps I have seen inaccurate portrayals in TV and film on this matter.

[@TheBrothergreen]

Contempt is anything the judge says it is. It's a judicial power, not a crime. Especially when the courtroom isn't filled to bursting with lookie loos and reporters. Not standing for the judge, not sitting, making noise or talking, making threatening gestures or just being disruptive could all qualify. In New York, the statute says up to 30 days in jail per offense and up to a $1000 fine.

[@StAugustine6]

@@TheBrothergreen Thank you. Always thought there were some kind of guidelines for contempt. But if it's basically at the judge's discretion, that is certainly different than I thought.

[@erniemathews5085]

KZbin's time notification has the picture saying "Jury of Pee". Perfect!

[@johnbowersox738]

You guys are killing me. The funny as hell commentary is great but then you add the picture of Devon and I ended up shooting the water I was drinking out of my nose. Thanks for that.

[@esc8engn]

love the channel. good episode. first time i think for me having, ahem, Spencer the Scowl Owl? @0:19 so y'all have your own raptor names and *ish? gotta ask who is doing your wardrobe tie knots vs. shirt collars tho? you trying to start new trends?

[@Scaboid]

Salutations, Mr. Eagle

[@kieranelliott5607]

Loving the multiple perspectives on the team, much appreciated.

[@irenafarm]

“It’s happening! It’s HAPPENING!” 😂

[@jamielord6522]

Aye i saw legal eagle made it on the questionnaire!

[@noexpert1481]

I like how they put leagle eagle on the questioniare that made me laugh

[@TheAres1999]

I was thinking we should have asked the Amish to help us with trying Trump. They are less likely to have been following this case as closely, so they probably aren't as biased. Doing it in Amish country would help prevent him from turning it into a TV spectacle. I do know that there are practical, and jurisdictional problems with that though.

[@letolethe3344]

Excellent post! Best part was the analysis of Rump's likely defense strategy.

[@dwanpol-lovesdonuts]

I love that Legal Eagle was on the list of news sources on the questionnaire.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

I'm Canadian & know enough French to cringe every time an Anglo lawyer says "Voir Dire"

[@Moraenil]

I'm American and it makes me cringe horribly as well. I'm not great at the French R roll but at least I'm always close.

[@Nicksonian]

Considering that over 90 percent of criminal cases are plea bargained, there must be a lot of lawyers who don’t have much experience working trials…and their juries.

[@paolovantassel1989]

And given how experienced lawyers treat Trump like he's a human venereal disease, you can probably guess what sort of skill they had when challenging jurors.

[@demolazer]

Plea bargaining is an awful practice

[@Nicksonian]

@@paolovantassel1989 There is no upside to defending Trump. That can be seen in the incompetency displayed by those he’s managed to hire. Others have been forced or stumbled into making serious ethical blunders that have threatened their very careers. Besides, Trump doesn’t pay his legal bills.

[@amyhowell2880]

always love to see scowl owl. these two have great duo dynamics.

[@paulinedunne3481]

Really informative, not just on this case but also juror selection! Kind of an interesting instance of bias towards the end - immigrant from Lebanon versus man from Ireland. I don’t have the time to look into whether this is the language used in the source or just in the video, but just something that stood out to me in the conversation about bias happening around juries in the video!

[@brianspeegle3675]

Thank you for all your hard work educating us. I have a question. If Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution, commonly referred to as the Supremacy Clause, supersedes State Constitutions and State Laws, why should law abiding citizens follow State Laws that are clearly unconstitutional??? And why aren't treasonous politicians held accountable for subverting our Constitutional Rights???

[@Toonrick12]

Because of amendment 10. The State holds the powers that aren't already held by the federal government. And laws are only called unconstitutional if they are challenged and are considered unconstitutional by the various courts and circles of both the state and federal government.

[@frankied.roosevelt6232]

Hi! Love your videos! However, in this one, the bottom of ScowlOwl's is flashing for some reason. Might seem very slight to the regular eye, but its way prevalent for us with photophobia and siezure/migraine issues that are triggered by flashing lights!😊

[@Brasswatchman]

What device were you watching on? A phone, laptop web browser, etc? Might help them track down the issue.

[@frankied.roosevelt6232]

@@Brasswatchman both my phone and tv had it!!

[@MrDast140]

Was Legal Eagle actually mentioned on the questionaire? If so, thats awesome!