Summary
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh engaged in a heated exchange with Mississippi's solicitor general during a Supreme Court hearing about racial discrimination in jury selection. The case discusses whether Mississippi courts properly evaluated claims of racial discrimination during the selection process in Terry Pitchford's murder trial.
Key Facts
- Brett Kavanaugh is a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The case is Pitchford v. Cain, related to jury selection in a 2006 Mississippi murder trial.
- Terry Pitchford, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced to death for murder.
- Pitchford's lawyers argue racial discrimination affected jury selection.
- The prosecution removed four out of five Black people from the jury pool.
- The court previously ruled these removals were race-neutral.
- Pitchford's attorneys want the Supreme Court to re-evaluate the discrimination claims.
