Ira Glass
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He has a very strong Texas twang.
And, you know, he's like, you should know I have a pet peeve of people who make fun of jury service.
I like to quote Frederick Douglass.
He says, we have three boxes that preserve liberty and justice in this country.
The ballot box, the cartridge box.
And when they get to the part where you're supposed to start questioning the jurors, the voir dire, he goes first.
And I'm in the overflow room, so I can't see the jury, but there's 75 or so of them.
Twelve jurors, three alternates.
And the judge starts asking questions to the jurors to see potential bias in the jurors.
So he asked them, what kind of experience do you have with law enforcement?
Which is not an unusual question in a trial like this.
And then he goes, do you have strong feelings about what ICE has been doing?