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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.

www.theatlantic.com 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.

Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock

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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.
- They are just going to do away with the jury
  
  I don't think so. They need to maintain a semblance of judicial decorum.
  
  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/
  
  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.
- 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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