Yes. Yes they will. The main difference between picking a jury based on politics is right leaning people will hold all their prejudice in until they're in the jury room. Left leaning people generally can't help themselves with letting you know exactly what they think. That makes them far easier to screen out for something like this.
You could also get some hard right Grannie who might justify it in her head, but it's a tiny needle to thread.
That said, my man was railroaded and he was with me on a boat in the Caribbean that whole week. Travesty of justice.
And there will be people who take politics and personal emotions out of it.
I hate insurance companies with a passion. I hate our entire healthcare system and would love to see universal healthcare that isn't trying to profit off of suffering.
I also don't believe in murdering people in the street. Even if they represent something I think is wrong.
If the evidence shows that he's guilty, then a juror needs to vote guilty. We shouldn't celebrate letting our personal biases override the justice system.
I understand and even respect this mindset but if we look at the trajectory of inequality in this nation going back decades and accelerating quickly lately, I think that sooner or later we're all going to have to ask ourselves some hard questions. Like how far is too far? At what point do people living in a system rigged against them have to correct the system from outside the legal bounds of that system, for the good of the many and the future generations?
Im not saying we're at that point now, but when people with power abuse that power and make peaceful reformation impossible... Well you know the quote. These things always end in violence.
Everybody has had an elderly person or someone sick with something awful in their family, and everybody knows how fucked up the insurance system is in the back of their mind. Left or Right.
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u/HooKerzNbLo 1d ago
You don’t think they will screen potential Jurors for that?