{"id":1479015,"date":"2022-05-18T07:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T11:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479015"},"modified":"2022-05-18T07:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T11:44:44","slug":"donations-of-jurors-and-judges-family-ties-at-durham-sussmann-trial-highlight-dcs-liberal-leanings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donations-of-jurors-and-judges-family-ties-at-durham-sussmann-trial-highlight-dcs-liberal-leanings\/","title":{"rendered":"Donations of Jurors and Judge\u2019s Family Ties at Durham-Sussmann Trial Highlight DC\u2019s Liberal Leanings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonations-of-jurors-and-judges-family-ties-at-durham-sussmann-trial-highlight-dcs-liberal-leanings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479015&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2020-08\/GettyImages-621743972.jpg?h=903dff9f&#038;itok=m0YVDtOo\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The trial for 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann this week in Washington, D.C., highlights the left-leaning of the nation&#8217;s capital \u2014 with as many as\u00a0three jurors reportedly having donated to the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth juror on the 12-member panel supported\u00a0New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/16\/hillary-aoc-donors-among-jury-pool-in-ex-clinton-lawyers-trial\/\">according<\/a> to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, presiding federal judge\u00a0Christopher Cooper says he and Sussmann were &#8220;professional acquaintances&#8221; while at the Justice Department in the 1990s. And the judge&#8217;s wife represents former FBI lawyer Lisa Page.<\/p>\n<p>Page exchanged text messages critical of then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign with then-FBI agent Peter Strzok, with whom she was having an extra-marital affair.<\/p>\n<p>The District of Columbia votes overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates, with Democrats outnumbering Republican voters 76.5% to 5.4%, according to the most recent figures from the city&#8217;s Board of Elections.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, D.C. voters favored Clinton over Trump, 90.9% to 4.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Special Counsel John Durham&#8217;s team objected to putting one Clinton donor on the jury after the man said he would &#8220;strive for impartiality as best I can,&#8221; the Post also reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, the prosecutors were overruled by Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who said the Clinton supporter &#8220;expressed a high degree of confidence&#8221; that he wouldn&#8217;t be biased.<\/p>\n<p>Judges can remove prospective jurors if through questioning it appears they&#8217;re not suited to sit on the jury for various reasons, including an inability to be impartial.<\/p>\n<p>Durham, who was appointed special counsel in October 2020 by the Justice Department, is charging Sussmann as part of an ongoing investigation into the origins and conduct of the government&#8217;s probe of alleged ties between Donald Trump and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann is on trial for allegedly lying to the FBI at a September 2016 meeting in which he presented the agency with information insinuating Trump-Russia links.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann, who at the time was a partner at Perkins Coie law firm that represented the Clinton campaign,\u00a0allegedly said he came to the FBI on his own behalf and did not disclose that the campaign and a tech industry client connected to Russia-collusion narrative were clients, at least one of whom he was billing.<\/p>\n<p>Sussman has pleaded not guilty to the charge. Opening arguments for the case began Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly one-third of the potential jurors questioned by prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Washington, D.C. courtroom on Monday said they had said they had either donated to Clinton&#8217;s campaign, worked the phone banks for her, or did something else to support her candidacy, the Washington Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/may\/16\/hillary-clinton-supporters-among-potential-jurors-\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Others said they thought they had donated to the Clinton campaign but weren&#8217;t sure, but\u00a0none of the avowed Clinton supporters made the final jury, the Times reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial for 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann this week in Washington, D.C., highlights the left-leaning of the nation&#8217;s capital \u2014 with as many as\u00a0three jurors reportedly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}