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“I can’t believe that the Supreme Court is not aware of this “jury of their peers” injustice.”
They are, and from what I understand have even ruled to allow prosecution without a “true” jury of our peers.
So how do they select the jury? Remember the Zimmerman case? No man was selected for the jury. Black men or white men were biased. So the jury was all women. It made sense to me.
I’ve been saying the same. We had a similar problem in Texas where the D.A. of Travis County (Austin) had a “Public Integrity” branch that looked at state-level wrongdoing. All fine until one considers who the elects the D.A., the Judges, and who are in the jury pool.
So the Texas legislature finally dealt with that problem.
Juries in Federal courts are selected from the entire District. If you live in Washington DC, that’s not much help.
Most of DC should be returned to Maryland. DC has more than judicial problems.
The trials of all natural persons in what is now DC should be transferred to a Maryland federal district.
“moved all over the country outside of megalopolises, but, even more so, do Federal District Courts”
Most of the parties are from those megalopolises.
Perhaps the districts should be redesigned to be ‘diverse’.
The Republican House could have fought to change the law so Peter Navarro could have paid a modest fine instead of spending four months locked up.
Here’s an idea.
Allow a defendant in a federal trial to remove his criminal to the District in which he resides.
Prior to the 6th Amendment the fear expressed by Anti-federalists was that someone in GA could be charged in a distant federal court, say in NY.
Without the 6A, there was nothing to prevent near-repetition of a charge in our Declaration of Independence: “For transporting us beyond the seas to be tried for pretended offenses.”
My experience is that a District Court has several offices.
The District Court for Western Pennsylvania has offices in Pittsburgh and Erie (maybe other places too?), but the cities proper are both Democrat.
I doubt they have a court in, say, McCandless Township.
I am uncertain about jury selection.
I would think that the court would consider jurors from outside the city, but I don’t know.