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.