The criminal hush money trial against Donald Trump inched forward with jury selection on Tuesday after six people were sworn in to serve as jurors in the case against the former president.

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he would ask the six jurors selected to return on Monday, though he cautioned that could change depending on the schedule. Seating six jurors completes roughly a third of the selection process, which began this week.

The process of jury selection, which is expected to take up to two weeks, can’t conclude without the selection of six more jurors and six alternates that are needed before opening arguments can commence. Attorneys for the prosecution and defense are vetting up to 500 potential jurors overall.

However, Merchan suggested that based on the current pace of the selection process, opening arguments could start as soon as Monday. Jury selection for trials typically takes less than a week, but the stakes and gravitas of the first criminal trial against a former president left room for a potentially longer-than-average time estimate.

More than half of the nearly 100 potential jurors in the first round of jury selection on Monday were almost immediately excused after they said they could not be fair or impartial in a trial that contains facts and allegations dating back to Trump’s 2016 election.

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By Tuesday afternoon, the initial group of 96 jurors that began undergoing the process the day before had been narrowed down to 24, according to press pool reports.

This is a developing story and will be updated.