Sixth Amendment

The push for more pretrial screening creates a tension between the Sixth Amendment’s dual guarantees of an impartial jury and a jury drawn from a fair cross-section of the defendant’s community. Because social media is disproportionately consumed among young adults, particularly ages eighteen to twenty-nine, heightened scrutiny of social media exposure during voir dire risks systemically excluding younger citizens from jury pools, thereby undermining a defendant’s right to a fair cross-section.