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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.

When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

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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.
- 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

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

You think they would allow an impartial jury‽
- 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.

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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