Trump Trial: 12 Jurors and 6 Alternates Seated

Jury selection is finished for former President Donald Trump’s New York “hush money” trial. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan stated, “We have now completed jury selection for this case,” after the jurors and alternates had been sworn in.

Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said that, regardless of the verdict, Americans should be reassured that ordinary citizens will determine the guilt or innocence of the former president, stating on X:

Jury selection in the trial of Donald J. Trump has concluded. However the trial turns out, it should be deeply reassuring to Americans that we still live in a country where a group of 12 ordinary citizens get to decide the guilt or innocence of a president.