President’s Day (the third Monday each February) presents a secret way for
everyone to be President for a day!
The secret is that juries can veto acts of Congress -just
as the President can. It’s known as a jury veto, jury nullification
or jury pardon. To learn more visit http://rexcurry.net/fija.html
Being a juror is like being President for a day, because
juror’s can veto the criminal laws of congress, and can grant any defendant
a pardon, like the president can!
Every juror is more powerful than the president, because
Congress can override the president’s veto, but Congress can’t override a
jury veto. The defendant goes free. It’s
like telling your congressman to go jump in a lake.
Even if a jury thinks a defendant is factually guilty,
they can declare the defendant not guilty, and they won’t be questioned about
it, and the “not guilty” verdict won’t be overturned. It’s a way that
juries fight antidisestablishmentarianism.
It is a way to stop the growth of the record the 2 million people in prison
There are only two normal ways that any person can restrict
the government: elections and jury duty. By voting at the ballot box,
or by voting on a jury.
The reason that jury nullification is secret is because
it isn’t mentioned in the government schools, in the mainstream media, and
definitely not on your local TV. And the judges won’t tell the
jurors, and the judges won’t let the defense attorneys tell the jurors either.
So people on the jury don’t realize that they each have the power to veto
criminal laws and acquit.
Jurors don't realize that they can be president for a day, every day.