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TheKentuckian

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9. You're coming off as one happy to support injustice if it is the letter of the law

Reply to rsdsharp (Reply #8)

Sun Nov 10, 2024, 01:57 PM

Nov 2024

because the spirit of it irrelevant.

Executing the innocent is fine and dandy, cuz its the LAW.

Maybe your code of honor would lead you to refuse to be sat for an unjust outcome if it was clear that was the nature of the trial but justice...real justice calls on us to short circuit the lynching not salve our personal virtues with a proverbial baby sawn in half left dead on the floor to allow us to feel we have clean hands.

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If conservatives make something illegal, it is your duty to nullify it in the jury box [View all] ck4829 Nov 2024 OP

an overwhelmingly broad statement .. stopdiggin Nov 2024 #1

If Republicans make something illegal, it is your duty to nullify it in the jury box ck4829 Nov 2024 #2

I think you said that before stopdiggin Nov 2024 #5

Rewrite this ck4829 Jan 2025 #19

NO, it be in a jury you have to agree you will FOLLOW the LAW, end of krawhitham Nov 2024 #3

The Fugitive Slave Act was the law at one point, I would have voted to acquit an abolitionist ck4829 Nov 2024 #4

you mean like anti-discrimination laws? stopdiggin Nov 2024 #7

Jury nullification does not not follow the law. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2024 #16

It's cool, google "jury nullification" ck4829 Nov 2024 #6

So you're the kind of person who will swear an oath and willfully violate it. rsdsharp Nov 2024 #8

You're coming off as one happy to support injustice if it is the letter of the law TheKentuckian Nov 2024 #9

First, in most cases, juries determine guilt, not sentences. rsdsharp Nov 2024 #10

It doesn't have to be death. The principle doesn't change. TheKentuckian Nov 2024 #11

I will not falsely swear an oath. Most certainly knowing when I swore it t be that I was doing so rsdsharp Nov 2024 #12

I have already taken an oath ck4829 Jan 2025 #18

Thank you. Human lives and freedoms are more important than laws based off of conservative vibes ck4829 Nov 2024 #14

I'm not going to be the kind of person who will join in the oppression of my fellow citizens ck4829 Nov 2024 #13

The oath to the Constitution has already been nullified JCMach1 Nov 2024 #15

Indeed ck4829 Nov 2024 #17