The right to a fair trial requires juries to have the legal right to acquit defended on there conscious. Otherwise state collusion and pressure leads to oppression.

https://defendourjuries.net/legal-press/
#juries #fairtrial #justice #oppression #legal #precedent

In some parts of the Western world, we're taught that jury-by-peer is a bastion of fairness, but what is a peer?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/27/ive-been-thinking-peers/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I suggest that this propaganda isn't all it's cracked up to be. I offer Nuremberg and Man in a High Castle as exhibits A and B.

#philosophy #psychology #enlightenment #germany #ontology #fairness #history #ontologicalgrammar #power #law #juries #peers #perception #morality #indoctonation #propaganda #justice #domination #blog #podcast

"Juries, once held in high esteem by so-called political reformers, are the latest core democratic mainstay to be discarded for bogus and opportunistic reasons by this arbitrary and whimsical form of cabinet governance"

#UKPolitics #Law #Justice #Juries

Juries want fairness in court and don’t just obey the government. That’s why ministers are attacking them | Michael Mansfield | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/law/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/labour-juries-court-proposals-government-ministers-criminal-justice-system?CMP=firstedition_email

The right to a civil jury still matters in Pennsylvania: Superior Court again refuses to enforce terms of service that do not put consumers on adequate notice that, by agreeing to arbitration, they are waiving a constitutional right to trial by jury

#law #contracts #arbitration #litigation #juries #TermsOfService

https://www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/03/pennsylvania-the-cutting-edge-of-arbitration-law/

Mediaite: Almost Half of Jury Pool in Musk Trial Tossed After ‘So Many’ Said They ‘Hate’ Him . “Elon Musk may have been contemplating snacking on a few earthworms after a brutal treatment by a jury pool in San Francisco, with almost half of the prospective jurors being disqualified because they declared their hatred for the tech CEO — one even went so far as to say he wanted to see […]

@davidallengreen offers a succinct, powerful & timely defence of juries - which it would be nice if David Lammy noted...

'the great value of juries is not so much the powers they have, but the powers they prevent others from having'!

(Dag makes this comment in a discussion of the constitutional act of trying to indict legislators - comparing the Tangerine Tyrant with Charles I).

#RuleOfLaw #juries #politics

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/72398/trump-failed-to-indict-six-members-of-congress.-this-is-why-it-matters