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After spending all day today being shuttled around the New York County courthouse in downtown Manhattan in increasingly smaller groups, I was unexpectedly dismissed as a potential juror at the end of the day. I say unexpectedly, because I was sure I’d be selected after watching dozens be dismissed for a variety of reasons both legitimate and supremely annoying. Early …

As I’ve mentioned in the JMG comments a few times in recent weeks, I’ve been summoned as a “standby petit juror” starting tomorrow here in Manhattan. Those summoned are told to check the New York County Courts website every day after 5PM to see if their number has been called and my number is on tomorrow’s list. That doesn’t mean …

Axios reports: Fewer Americans are trying to get out of jury duty, and legal experts say this may reflect people’s growing desire to combat systemic racism. Jury consultant Jason Bloom tells Axios that, historically, as many as one in four U.S. adults who are called for jury duty seek to be excused, citing hardships. But now, that number has shrunk …

The Associated Press reports: Former President Barack Obama, free of a job that forced him to move to Washington for eight years, showed up to a downtown Chicago courthouse for jury duty on Wednesday morning. Whether he will be selected to sit on a jury, and presumably be selected jury foreman, was not known. But if he is like other …