Battle for the Constitution: Week of April 26th, 2021 Roundup

Below is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.

The Chauvin Trial’s Jury Wasn’t Like Other Juries

By Sonali Chakravarti, Associate Professor of Government, Wesleyan University

Sonali Chakravarti details the jury selection process in the Derek Chauvin trial, and argues that the guilty verdict was reached not only because of the overwhelming evidence, but the composition of the jury, which looked more like America than most juries.