All 12 jurors have been seated in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial in Manhattan. While jury selection continues today for alternates, the judge overseeing the case said opening arguments in the trial could come as soon as Monday. Former federal prosecutor Gene Rossi breaks down the challenges of seating a jury in such a historic, high-profile case.
Google announced late Wednesday that it fired 28 workers who staged sit-in protests at some of the company’s offices this week. The protests were organized by the group No Tech for Apartheid. They were demonstrating against a $1.2 billion joint contract with Amazon to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing services.
And in headlines: Mutliple news outlets reported that Israel launched a strike on Iran, House lawmakers will again take up a bill to potentially ban TIkTok, and sports icons Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird are set to produce a queer soccer romance called “Cleat Cute.”
Show Notes:
DeSantis Defunds DEI
Make Turkey Free Again
Title 42 Gets 86'd
It's The End Of The COVID Emergency As We Know It
The Legend of E. Jean
We See You, Tre'vell
Another Tragedy In Texas
The Dishonorable Clarence Thomas
Not Lovin' It
Default In Our Stars
Write Or Dies
Trans Rights or Fillibust
The Many Trials of Donald Trump
Let Her Speak
Supremely Sus
All Tuckered Out
Until Debt Do Us Part
Why Buzzfeed News Left Us
Full Supreme Court Press
The Defamation Trial That Never Was
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