Just when you look around at where you are standing in the world and think to yourself, "Gee, I sure would like to step in a big old pile of warm and runny dogshit, there appears Mr. Bullshit.
The fact is, Mr. Bullshit, if the judge is biased, and he most assuredly is, then that can, and will, affect jury selection. Each side has equal numbers of peremptory challenges, and each side can challenge a juror "for cause" (e.g., a potential juror is wearing a tee shirt with a swastika in a Title VII case). So yes, equal ... kind of. Everything I have seen of the Eye CarRolL case and the NYC fRaIUdddd case strongly suggest a leftist bias in the judges, which is terribly unfortunate.