Jury duty handed a Politico editor a series of inside scoops Monday when he was sent into the Washington, D.C., courtroom of the federal judge who will be overseeing former President Donald Trump's election interference case — to report for jury duty.
According to writer Patrick Caldwell, Judge Tanya Chutkan described the election interference case for which he was being considered as a juror as "not the other one" — meaning it was a misdemeanor case for a suspected January 6 rioter, and not the one involving Trump.
Caldwell thinks he's the only one in the pool who knew what Chutkan meant.n
The Politico editor shared this information on X along with a retweet of a message from Politico colleague Kyle Cheney that was sent earlier Monday:
"Donald Trump would likely have gone on trial today were it not for his appeal on presidential immunity," Cheney wrote. "Instead, Judge Chutkan is beginning a trial for Jan. 6 misdemeanor defendant Linwood Nester."
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Caldwell was not selected, although he did clear the first hurdle when he said, unlike about a dozen fellow potential jurors, that he could issue an impartial ruling on a Jan. 6 case.
Caldwell then name-dropped himself, and Chutkan, when questioned during the voir dire.
"I noted to Judge Chutkan that her name and decisions on other trials had come up a lot at my work of late," Caldwell told her.
"You know there’s a case in New York too," Chutkan reportedly quipped back.
