In an era where trust in institutions crumbles beneath the weight of partisan judges and zealous prosecutors, a forgotten cornerstone of American liberty lies dormant: jury nullification. This is not ...

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Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin scoffed at the idea that jury nullification could play a role in Donald Trump’s New York criminal, thus thwarting a conviction of the former president. Jury ...

The history of jury nullification is to some extent one of rebellion. As we discussed in an earlier column, the doctrine dates back to seventeenth-century England and has been exercised by juries ...

NASHVILLE — An effort by two Republican lawmakers to proceed with a "nullification" bill based on a historically unsuccessful theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial ...

Sixty-seven members of the Louisiana House and 27 state senators have embarrassed themselves and the state by adopting a loony-radical resolution saying the state has “the sovereign right” to “nullify ...

Historical amnesia is as dangerously disorienting for a nation as for an individual. So it is with the current wave of enthusiasm for “states’ rights,” “interposition,” and “nullification”—the claim ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the 19th century, the theory of nullification, and the crisis it provoked, was all ...

Can a country’s citizens nullify the criminal cases that a popular leader faces by handing them an electoral victory in the general elections? This question raises issues that could prove pivotal to ...

Crazy Uncle Liberty (!) was out spoutin' liberty on behalf of...holy crap, The Cooch! CUL (!) apparently has been vacationing in 1857. "Jefferson obviously was a clear leader on the principle of ...