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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago

Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock | When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

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Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock | When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago
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  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    Jury nullification is fine and all, until the jurors feel threatened if they vote the wrong way. Most juries aren’t innominate and jurors can also end up on Trump’s enemies list.

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      They are just going to do away with the jury

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        I don’t think so. They need to maintain a semblance of judicial decorum.

        • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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          This is what ICE detainments have been doing. Even when a US citizen is detained they get no access to make calls, confer with a lawyer, or see a judge. Basically anything ICE does is extra-judicial.

          https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/george-retes-ice-detained-us-citizen/684152/

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          I don’t think that’s going to happen Since Clarence Thomas just said that precedence didn’t mean anything anymore. I think we are definitely headed down that road.

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      He won’t have to and could never be bothered to personally call them out by name. He will just ask his followers to rid him of these meddlesome jurors

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    I’m just going off the headline here, but good to see the Atlantic supporting Luigi Mangione like this!

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    It’s not likely to get that far. They should feel lucky they even got a Grand Jury to let this farce go ahead. That’s by far the easiest step, and there’s other cases where they couldn’t even get that.

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    Ehh… Summary judgements incoming

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    Picturing the jurors with guns to their heads. Doesn’t have to be literal.

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    Jurors always have that option. Pass it on

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    You think they would allow an impartial jury‽

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      They may not have a choice of their grand jury cases recently are anything to go by. They can try to get a biased jury, but if the majority of people are against them they won’t be able to.

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