In my latest article for Discourse, I discuss the importance of the jury trial—a principle that some on the left attacked in the wake of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Excerpt:
The jury system is meant to be a miniature version of the community—a representative sample of society—and its responsibilities go beyond simply adjudicating the guilt of defendants. It is also responsible for supervising the judicial system itself. Like all human institutions, it is flawed and subject to abuse—but, as Churchill said of democracy, it is the worst except for all the other systems that have been tried.
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