The jury in Steve Bannon’s trial on contempt of Congress charges is likely to begin deliberations after hearing closing arguments from both sides on Friday.
Fourteen jurors, 9 men and 5 women, were sworn in at the federal district court in Washington, DC, after concluding on Tuesday.
The jury includes a State Department employee, an art dealer, a NASA contractor, a doctor, an architect and a handful of DC government employees.
Some of the jurors have extensive prior experience serving on juries, they testified in court yesterday. The jury is made up of 14 people because there are two alternates in the pool, and will not be announced publicly until deliberations.
Some context: During the first part of Monday’s jury selection process, potential jurors were not pressed on their general feelings about Bannon or former President Trump.
However, they were asked about their news consumption of the House inquiry into the January 6 uprising and about that case itself. Some said they had consumed a little of the House hearings, if that.
Many of the prospective jurors had said they had heard minimally about Bannon’s case, but a large number of them had attended at least some of the select committee’s public hearings. But awareness alone was not enough to get them kicked out of the jury pool.