“For months since his expulsion from Congress, George Santos has blithely stoked political intrigue on social media and sold customized videos of himself on Cameo,” the New York Times reports.
“Now, he is arguing that all that publicity could taint his criminal trial next month.”
“In a flurry of pretrial filings, Mr.
Santos’s lawyers have argued that the federal judge overseeing the case must take extra steps to screen potential jurors with a lengthy written questionnaire, and then obscure their identities from the public, if the proceeding is to be fair.”