Republican Senators on Twitter today admitting that their strategy was to pack the courts with political conservatives in order to enact an agenda that was too unpopular to pass through an elected, popularly accountable Congress.
Republicans are forcing a 10 year child in Ohio who was raped to carry the rapist’s fetus to term. This is barbarism. Period.
Who is going to charge someone who gets this kid out of Ohio? This is where Jury Nullification steps up to the plate and hits it out of the park!
The right of “Jury Nullification of Bad Law” is the ultimate right of the people to control their government.
JURY NULLIFICATION – THE PEOPLE CONTROLS THE GOVERNMENT NOT THE REPUBLICAN SUPREME IDIOT TRAITORS COURT.
Jury Nullification, Know Your Jury Rights
THE JURY ACTS AS THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT
The Principle of Jury Nullification.
Judges and Lawyers won’t tell you that Jurors have the right to judge the law as well as the facts of a case.
Pennsylvania
In 1895, the Supreme Court ruled that jurors had no right, during trials, to be told about nullification.
The court did not say that jurors didn’t have the power, or that they couldn’t be told about it, but only that judges were not required to instruct them on it during a trial. Since then, it’s been up activist websites like the one you are on now to get the word out.
*Jury nullification is a reminder that the right to trial by one’s peers affords the public an opportunity to take a dissenting view about the justness of a statute or official practices.
“Jury Nullification” is the way people can express opposition to an unpopular legislative enactment. Judges used to inform Juries of their rights till 1895 (Sparf vs. U.S.) Now Judges in New Hampshire, Maryland and Indiana are required to inform Juries of their rights.
“I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1789 letter to Thomas Paine
“The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.” ~ John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States
Sick, extreme, barbaric, cruel, hateful, disgusting, inhumane, immoral. The difference between the political parties has never been so stark.
Mask mandates were “child abuse,” but forcing ten year old rape victims to give birth is just fine. Right Republicans?
The 1776 Restoration Movement, formerly the People’s Convoy, has descended on highways around the D.C. area and are now blocking three lanes of traffic on 95 north and 95 southbound.
Republicans will do anything it takes to help their dark money corporate backers dodge taxes. Siding with a right-wing autocrat is shameful, but that won’t stop them. Money talks louder than morals.
The Moral Majority: Collection of Primary Sources
The Moral Majority Report and the Liberty Report newsletter from the conservative advocacy group are now on JSTOR. Researchers take note.
2 bills to alter Pa.’s Right-to-Know Law face a summer of negotiation in Legislature
SB492, sponsored by state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin, would bring the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, state-related universities and economic development organizations under the scope of the RTK law.
Congress better get this overwith ASAP
Fort Bragg would become Fort Liberty under new plan and eight other bases named for Confederates would be renamed to honor Eisenhower and other military heroes, including several trailblazing Black, Hispanic and female veterans.
One teacher provides more of a public service than one thousand politicians.
Jury Rights can be described as the right to:
conclude the defendant did not commit a crime even though he/she broke the law
the right to question if the law was applied correctly
the right not to be punished for their verdict
The right of “Jury Nullification of Bad Law” is the ultimate right of the people to control their government.
The underlying common law concepts firmly establish the fact that Jurors cannot be punished for their verdict.
As well, jurors are not required to give a reason for the verdict they render.
The fundamental right of Jurors to render their verdict based on conscience, individual sense of justice, and human duty, is basic to the preservation of Justice, and to our Lawful Society.
Learn how to use your Jury votes to control your government.
We The People control the law, the Grand Jury, and the Trial Jury were all put in the system as separate powers, they are the check against all the others. The Trial Check is the most important check and the final check in the system of checks and balances.
The jury’s vote is the most important check against bad laws of politicians, and judges who have been corrupted.
When the judge asked the “instructions” question, you should reply “I believe that jurors have the right to judge the law as well as the facts of a case. And tell the judge if you think the law is unjust, frivolous or absurd you have to vote your conscience. If the court instructs the jury to convict. The Jury can tell the Judge no.
“Jury nullification” is thus a means for the people to express opposition to an unpopular legislative enactment.
*Jury nullification is a reminder that the right to trial by one’s peers affords the public an opportunity to take a dissenting view about the justness of a statute or official practices.
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Music/Jury_Nullifation_Rights.html
To grasp why the Bill of Rights leads off by barring Congress from “establishing” any religion, “or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” you must understand that in 18th century England there was no “separation of church and state.” The English monarch to this day includes in her title “Fidele Defensor”– Defender of the Faith. Which helps explains why even our right to a jury trial stems directly from this era.
GEORGE H. BOLDT (U.S. federal judge, U.S. V. Beck, February, 1959, per The Great Quotations, ed. George Seldes, Citadel Press, 1983): “Jury service honorably performed is as important in the defense of our country, its Constitution and laws, and the ideals and standards for which they stand, as the service that is rendered by the soldier on the field of battle in time of war.”
1 Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, pp. 101, 105 (1904) (Journals) as quoted in RICHMOND NEWSPAPERS, INC v VIRGINIA, 448 US 555 (1980)” [One] great right is that of trial by jury. This provides that neither life, liberty nor property can be taken from the possessor until twelve of his unexceptionable countrymen and peers of his vicinage, who from that neighbourhood may reasonably be supposed to be acquainted with his character and the characters of the witnesses, upon a fair trial, and full enquiry, face to face, in open Court, before as many of the people as chuse to [448 U.S. 569] attend, shall pass their sentence upon oath against him. . . .”
If Liz Cheney has convinced you that only now is democracy under attack, wait till you find out about her dad stealing a national election by getting 5 unelected judges to halt the counting of votes.
They are dismantling the power of the Federal government. To what end is the question!
A Judicial Coup where the states, not the people, pick a president in 2024?
They’ve alluded to it and announced a new case for next term that will decide it!
We’re all together in the same struggle against authoritarianism.
We protect us. We liberate us.
Trump appointed more than 200 lifetime judges to the federal bench, including nearly as many powerful federal appeals court judges and 3 SCOTUS ones.
Those judges are ALL blindly killing our fundamental rights and freedoms.
#TrumpDamagedOurCourts
Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit #Abortion Clinics
Digital rights. Abortion rights and your data being sold.
https://vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegraph-planned-parenthood
@motherboard @EFF @ACLUTx @ACLUOK @ACLU @OperationJane
#Anonymous #OpJane #RoeVsWade #RoeVWadeprotest
The company selling the data is SafeGraph. #SafeGraph ultimately obtains location data from ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones.
List of OBGYNs in Missouri who will not require a man’s permission for a tubal or other ridiculous requirements https://twitter.com/OperationJane/status/1543963328078389248
@jennycohn1
I already knew that Roger Stone has ties to the Proud Boys & OathKeepers. What I didn’t know is that Mike Flynn has close ties to Code of Vets & 1AP, organizations that both have close ties to the Oathkeepers. Long thread.
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1543777598450192384
Derner, Justice Deferred (Harvard October 2021)
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975644
In the first comprehensive accounting of the U.S. Supreme Court’s race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice.
The Supreme Court is usually seen as protector of our liberties: it ended segregation, was a guarantor of fair trials, and safeguarded free speech and the vote. But this narrative derives mostly from a short period, from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Before then, the Court spent a century largely ignoring or suppressing basic rights, while the fifty years since 1970 have witnessed a mostly accelerating retreat from racial justice.
@Paultx890
If Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott and Kay Ivey fell through ice in to a frozen river and you could save only one………..what kind of popcorn would you eat as you sat on the bank and watched?