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Lloyd Alter's avatar

Someone should write a play and a movie about this jury: “Twelve Hangry Men”

Victoria T's avatar

Thanks for this most enlightening article Mike. It is so refreshing to see how the 4th and most powerful branch of the U.S. government is speaking and are acting out.

Margo Lindsey's avatar

Americans remember what happened on January 6, how Trump’s goons rampaged through the Capitol to overturn the election. On Day One Trump pardoned them all! Since then, the ICE raids, the horror of the El Salvador prison, the shutdown, the slaughter in GAZA, kissing up to Putin, terminating health insurance and SNAP for the poorest Americans, the desecration of the White House, and now mass unemployment and poverty. Trump and the MAGA regime are abject failures and Americans have had ENOUGH!!!

Sunnygirl58's avatar

This acquittal gave me a new hope today. Combined with the mini blue off-year-election wave and oral arguments at the scotus that make any one with a brain understand that tariffs really truly are taxes on Americans. Well hope springs eternal.

Anecdotage's avatar

If juries are ruling against the current regime then we need to be prepared for retaliation In the form of threats and jury tampering. Certainly folks in the White House are asking why the jury wasn't fixed.

Sharon Hom's avatar

🙏♥️ You are not an angry Cassandra (time to revise your self-description?) You are a brilliant shining light on all the signs of hope growing, reminders that we can reject complicity with illegitimate power.

Linda Aldrich's avatar

Although a much more serious crime and trial, this reminds me a bit of the way the O.J. trial was documented in O.J.: Made In America, as a sign of the times middle finger from jurors.

Pam Valente's avatar

I love that you wrote about this.

Nenapoma's avatar

I m really enjoying your interpretation of events