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Would you strike Barack Obama from the jury panel?

By Jill D. Schmid, Ph.D. Obama arrived this morning (11/8/17) at the Daly Center in Chicago for jury duty in Cook County, but he didn’t

Thomas O'Toole, Ph.D. November 9, 2017

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