Former Presidents: They're Just Like Us! Obama Summoned For Jury Duty
Barack Obama is to report next month in Cook County, Ill. If selected, he wouldn't be the first high-profile juror — Oprah Winfrey served in a murder trial in 2004.
by Maggie Penman
Oct 28, 2017
2 minutes
There are plenty of perks to being a former U.S. president: a lifetime salary, a Secret Service entourage and office facilities provided on the taxpayers' dollar. Avoiding jury duty, however, is not one of them.
"We have a system in Cook County where one serves one time a year
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