• cattywampas@lemm.ee
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    16 hours ago

    Have you ever been selected for jury duty? I haven’t, so I can’t speak to the screening process.

    In cases of capital punishment I wouldn’t be surprised if they screen out people who are against it, since it would be a conflict of interest. A jury’s only purpose is to determine whether someone is guilty of a crime, not to weigh in on sentencing. Although I’m pretty sure sentencing comes later anyway.

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      15 hours ago

      I believe it is to the same extent that the President of the United States is immune in carrying out official duties and with equal breadth and arbitraryness. To accept anything less licks the boot that says all are equal under the law but the President is King

      Its equally outrageous that a president can pardon people to the idea that a citizen or multiple citizens together can do the same

      Just because the President being able to do it lawful doesnt mean either aren’t equally arbitrary and thus amoral

      If the law is wrong or its being applied unequally, legitimacy must be restored to the law by uniting those the law protects and those the law binds. If the two should depart they must be reunited