People For President Svante Myrick responds to Trump's prosecution's strategy to select Black men as jurors in his criminal hush money case.
Defense attorneys representing Donald Trump in the historic hush money criminal trial in New York City are reportedly seeking young Black male jurors who they believe could be persuaded to acquit the former president.
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“I wish them luck,” said Svante Myrick, president of People For the American Way, a progressive advocacy group.
The former mayor of Ithaca, New York, told theGrio that while young Black men may be “open-minded to hearing if a prosecution is unfair,” they are also “discerning.”