you say fix bad laws in congress. well that is just fine and dandy. you convict some one beucase you go with the law as written (even though you know it is wrong)ok will you take the time now to lobby that law be changed??? how long will that take??? will that person you just convicted for breaking the un-constitutinal law be rotting in jail while you work out the details with Congress (a bunch of law breaking bastards for the most part)???
some how that does not seem right to allow a citizen rot in jail while Congress gets around to fixing the law.
that is why we have juries, they can immediatly rectifiy a bad law and prevent the jailing of a person that broke no constitutional law. this is the final safety check for bad laws. we all now how many times politicans pass laws that even the judges eventually overturn as being unconsitutional. but in you view would it really be better for a citizen to rot in jail while it is being worked out???
that citizen will never ever get that time back. you are immoral to vote to jail someone over an Un-constitituional law.
I can only pray that one day folks like you will be on the wrong side of a liberal politicans law, and see how you would like it if you had a jury that does not look at the Constitutinal ramification of that bad law. hell rot in jail until Congress fixes it.
bad bad bad.
What about a jury who KNOWS that citizens having guns is wrong? (It's not hard to imagine 12 people coming together who feel that way.) Are you OK with being convicted of murder because that jury nullified the self-defense laws of your state? After all, they KNOW those laws are wrong.
ok will you take the time now to lobby that law be changed??? how long will that take??? will that person you just convicted for breaking the un-constitutinal law be rotting in jail while you work out the details with Congress (a bunch of law breaking bastards for the most part)???
That's the process the Constitution has established. Do you suggest we throw out the Constitution and do it all differently?