Posted on 04/20/2021 6:08:04 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporters divulged everything about jurors in the Chavin case short of their names and addresses. It is said by those with knowledge about how proprietary, personal information is improperly released in public--doxxing--that this act constituted clear, civil intimidation.
The right to exercise one's jury duty without fear of retribution is a key civil right akin to privacy in the right to vote.
My Mother suffered for exercising her right to vote. In Chicago of the early 1930s, she was given a ride to a polling place by an employee of the local political machine. Ballots were not sufficiently secret, in that one had to ask for a Democratic or a Republican ballot, clearly identifiable by those without need to know. The young man abandoned my Mother on the way back.
This right to civil privacy is similar to the right to decline to identify your sexual preference--NOYDB, none of your damn business. Failure to respond to the question is liable to become effectively a civil crime, subject to punishment or informal persecution.
Imagine if you weren't allowed to have privacy in a public bathroom stall, or if a stranger could come into the bathroom of your home without your having any ability to prevent it?
Some rights necessarily involve privacy. Privacy is proper to their very exercise. A Justice Department on the side of the American people would prosecute the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporters, Paul Walsh, Hannah Sayle and Abby Simone, who don't have a reasonable expectation of immunity for their violation of American jurors' right to privacy in the exercise of their civil office.
“The Star-Tribune is known around here as the Star and Sickle.”
Or the Red Star.
Blue state justice. The judge was a Democratic party activist. The jury was intimidated by the MSM.The defense attorneys were duly compliant The courtroom itself was under siege. Modern day woke show trial put on by the socialists.
when someone is doxxed.... just return the favor. every time...all the time.
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