The Supreme Court has been doing a lot of rejecting lately.
One of the cases rejected is going to send liberals into an absolute tizzy.
The court recently rejected a case that would have required all states to have 12-person juries in felony cases.
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There are a handful of states in the country that still use six and eight-person juries in felony cases.
The plaintiffs in the case somehow tied this to race, insisting that the smaller jury was to block minorities from being able to sit on them.
Ironically, it was liberal justices that blocked this, at least one of them, because we know this is a passion of Justice Gorsuch’s.
Since he was on board with taking the case, had all three liberal justices sided with him, the case would be before the court.
Gorsuch stated, “If there are not yet four votes on this court to take up the question, I can only hope someday there will be.
“In the meantime, nothing prevents the people of Florida and other affected states from revising their jury practices to ensure no government in this country may send a person to prison without the unanimous assent of 12 of his peers.”
The case was challenging Florida law, but as we noted, in addition Florida, Arizona, Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Utah all use smaller juries of no more than eight people.
With two of those states being deep blue country, how can race possibly have anything to do with it, right? If that was the case, Dems would have fixed it already since they are always looking out for minorities.
Florida officials responded to the ruling, stating, “For nearly as long as states have had a Sixth Amendment duty to provide criminal jury trials, this court’s message to the people of Florida has been clear: the jury structure that they have settled on for a century and a half fulfills that duty.”
