Elie Honig, CNN’s chief legal analyst, joins David French fresh off jury duty to discuss his piece for New York Magazine on how worried we should be about election challenges ahead of the midterms.
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The two also discuss the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on third-country removals, do some level-setting on the civil lawsuit against Cornell University over an alleged gang rape, and participate in a Star Wars SCOTUS draft.
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The Agenda:
–Jury duty hangover
–We’re having a draft!
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I was born ready.
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I'm David French, and I am sitting in the host chair once again, just, just for a week, only a week, so you don't have to wait too long for Sara to come back.
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But while I'm in the host chair, I have the best guest host once again coming back for the encore presentation, CNN's senior political analyst, Elie Honig.
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Okay, so this is-- I, I loved this experience.
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So, I've picked many juries, right?
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So I've picked many, many juries, and I've never really been on the other side.
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I get the notice like everyone else does, but it feels like the last several times, every time, you call the number the night before and they say, "We don't need you," and you go, "Great."
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This time they said, "We need you on Tuesday."
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Okay, so I go down.
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I go down to the courthouse in New Brunswick, which I've been in many times because when I was at the AG's office, we supervised all the county prosecutors.
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And so I, you know, I, I, it's my home base.
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It's massive, it's packed, and they've obviously got jury trials galore.
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They're calling up a group of 30.
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They're calling up a group of 40, and nothing for me.
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And honestly, at a certain point, I started to feel a little rejected and a little left out.
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And so we go to the lunch break, and the day's dragging, and I'm thinking, "Eh, it's over.
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They're not gonna need me."
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And at 2:30 PM or so, they need another panel, and my name's on the list.
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So, I walk up to the courtroom, and it's a criminal case.
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There's two defendants, and the judge hands us the little, uh, the little questionnaire, and I realize it's a DCJ case, meaning the Division of Criminal Justice, which I used to run for five and a half years in New Jersey.
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It's sort of the equivalent of, you know, most federal cases are gonna be prosecuted by US attorneys in the field, but one out of 40 is gonna be by main justice, right?
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This happens to be one of those cases.
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So, I'm looking at the witness list, and it's 10 or 15 detectives, most of whom I hired.
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And then I look over to the table, I actually don't know the prosecutors, but I hired and promoted their bosses.
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So, the judge is, is calling down the names, and he gets to me, and I go up and I say, "Your Honor, you know, look, I could definitely be fair.
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Like, I could absolutely be fair and impartial, but you should know I used to run the division..."
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And immediately this, this look of recognition comes over his face.
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"I used to run the Division of Criminal Justice.
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I know most of the witnesses on the list.
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I don't know these prosecutors, but I, I, I know their bosses."
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And the judge goes, "Oh, yeah, yeah.
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This, this won't work."
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And then he goes, "And I like you on TV also."
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[chuckles] I was like, "Okay, thank you.
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