Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday unsealed a number of motions filed during the recently-concluded and not-good-concluded for defendant Donald Trump trial in the EJ Carroll rape and defamation lawsuit, one of them Trump’s move to oppose Carroll’s team’s ultimately unsuccessful attempt to get Juror 77, a fan of right wing incel podcaster Tim Pool, replaced.
“A juror’s political affiliation is not grounds for dismissal, even in cases involving a political figure,” Joe Tacopina wrote in the motion, which just kind of contradicts basically everything Trump has said about the jury since he lost the case, such as calling them “partisan” in a late night Truth Social meltdown. The appeal, if it even actually happens, ought to be fun.