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All jurisdictions in the United States have some form of peremptory challenges.

In the United States, the use of peremptory challenges by criminal prosecutors to remove persons from a cognizable group ( i. e., of one race, ethnicity, or gender ) based on that group characteristic has been ruled to be unconstitutional in Batson v. Kentucky,.

" Batson challenge " is a term now used to refer to the act of arguing for the invalidity of a trial on the basis that peremptory challenges during jury selection resulted in the exclusion of a cognizable group.