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Madeline Halpert Jury selection started with an initial batch of 96 people. Of those, 84 were excused.
Reporting from court Then we have the six who have been selected to sit on the jury. And six others who are in purgatory, they could still be selected or they might be excused.
Prosecutors spent the break this afternoon combing through social media posts going back as far as 2016. But the court is on a bit of a roll here and Justice Merchan has decided to get the next batch of potential jurors sworn in.
And not just posts from the prospective jurors, but even their romantic partners. That's 96 fresh faces entering the arena.
Todd Blanche, one of Trump's lawyers, brought up a series of posts shared by a potential juror's husband in 2016. A reminder that a jury is made up of 12 people. And six additional alternates needed.
One had a character from "The Simpsons" with Trump's head in its hands, another said "The Avengers unite against Trump". Judge Merchan plans for opening statements to start on Monday morning, as the pace has really picked up.
And Judge Merchan read out lines from the third post with an image of Trump next to President Barack Obama:
"I don’t think this is what they meant, that orange is the new black".
Joshua Steinglass from the prosecution is trying to limit the power these posts have to dismiss potential jurors. He says that "social media posts from seven or eight years ago" serve as a problematic litmus test.
"People post things on social media … that seem to be funny at the time, and that’s not necessarily as weighty as people think it is."
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