[marron]

“We also live in a country in which we ask every citizen to serve on juries. Most of those people have other jobs they have to take leave from. If the trial goes for a long time, often they don’t collect their paycheck from that and are given a meager amount of money relative to what some of those people might make,” Hayes said.

I've always thought that, on long trials, jurors should be paid a wage equal to a court bailiff.

[zeugma]

I've always thought that, on long trials, jurors should be paid a wage equal to a court bailiff.

I have an alternative idea. Since the U.S. Constitution contains this:
Section 10. No state shall ... make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; ...

I'll take one or two of these... $5 Gold Eagle. They'd still only be paying me $10/day, but that's OK, since it's actual money.