{"id":1955,"date":"2012-03-21T20:14:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2012-03-21T20:14:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:14:42","slug":"a-u-s-judge-said-on-wednesday-that-advocating-for-jury-nullification-could-pose-a-threat-to-the-judicial-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"“A U.S. judge said on Wednesday that advocating for jury nullification could pose a threat to the judicial system . . .”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indeed it could<\/a>. That’s the whole point of such advocacy. The traditional right of juries to judge the justice of the laws (which is itself a necessary and obvious corollary of the moral law, which gives no man, and no juror, and no judge, the right to do wrong<\/em>) is in apparent and notorious conflict with the “judicial system.”<\/p>\n

A couple posts ago I had the temerity to adopt as my own the final words of Rostand’s Cyrano. That’s almost as ridiculous as adopting Atticus Finch as one’s online pseudonym, or claiming to be a follower of Jesus Christ. But I’ve already affirmed many times on this blog my sincerely held belief that no one is Good but God alone. I aspire<\/em> to panache<\/em>. (Style is only half of it by the way. I reread most of Cyrano<\/em> yesterday. A man with panache is first and foremost a target<\/em>.) With that out of the way, let me quote Cyrano again<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I carry my adornments on my soul.<\/p>\n

I do not dress up like a popinjay;<\/p>\n

But inwardly, I keep my daintiness.<\/p>\n

I do not bear with me, by any chance,<\/p>\n

An insult not yet washed away\u2014a conscience<\/p>\n

Yellow with unpurged bile\u2014an honor frayed<\/p>\n

To rags, a set of scruples badly worn.<\/p>\n

I go caparisoned in gems unseen,<\/p>\n

Trailing white plumes of freedom, garlanded<\/p>\n

With my good name\u2014no figure of a man,<\/p>\n

But a soul clothed in shining armor, hung<\/p>\n

With deeds for decorations, twirling\u2014thus\u2014<\/p>\n

A bristling wit, and swinging at my side<\/p>\n

Courage, and on the stones of this old town<\/p>\n

Making the sharp truth ring, like golden spurs!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Making the sharp truth ring, like golden spurs!<\/p>\n

It is debatable whether America would be better or worse off without the United States of America. I admit that much. On the one hand, we have the monstrosity we know. On the other, I myself am partial to the Iroquois Confederacy as an historical exemplar of liberty, and as a model for future possibilities. But for God’s sake, setting aside that debate, at least see “Authority” for what it is. A Lie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indeed it could. That’s the whole point of such advocacy. The traditional right of juries to judge the justice of the laws (which is itself a necessary and obvious corollary of the moral law, which gives no man, and no juror, and no judge, the right to do wrong) is in apparent and notorious conflict […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}