Will New York Jury Give Trump a Fair Shake?
The former president, like all Americans, is owed an ‘impartial jury.’
The trial that ensues from the indictment sought by District Attorney Alvin Bragg and handed up by a Manhattan-based grand jury will be a homecoming of sorts for President Trump, who was born at Jamaica Hospital, Queens.
It was the novelist Thomas Wolfe who popularized the phrase “you can’t go home again.” He used it as the title of his posthumously published classic, but in Mr. Trump’s case a better rendering might be that you are likely to find not a welcome mat but an unfriendly jury eager to convict. It raises a question both practical and constitutional: Can the former president get a fair trial in his hometown?
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