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The historian Forrest McDonald, describing the split over nullification among proponents of states' rights, wrote, "The doctrine of states' rights, as embraced by most Americans, was not concerned exclusively, or even primarily, with state resistance to federal authority."
Forrest McDonald, Jr. (January 7, 1927 – January 19, 2016) was an American historian [1] who wrote extensively on the early national period of the United States, republicanism, and the presidency, but he is possibly best known for his polemic on the American South.
The Camden 28 were a group of leftist, Catholic, anti-Vietnam War activists who in 1971 planned and executed a raid on a draft board in Camden, New Jersey, United States.The raid resulted in a high-profile criminal trial of the activists that was seen by many as a referendum on the Vietnam War and as an example of jury nullification.
Nearly every day of Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial, photographers have captured a grimacing Trump seated at the defense table, a former U.S. president for the first time facing ...
The FBI has recently made public several photos from the investigation inside the Pentagon after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The images, posted to the FBI's records vault, give a new look ...
United States v. Thomas, 116 F.3d 606 (2nd Cir. 1997), [1] was a case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a juror could not be removed from a jury on the ground that the juror was acting in purposeful disregard of the court's instructions on the law, when the record evidence raises a possibility that the juror was simply unpersuaded by the Government's case ...
A left-leaning influencer who fell for and shared a phony image of Kamala Harris in a McDonald’s uniform is now calling out Donald Trump and his supporters for sharing altered images of the ...
There is some question as to whether jury nullification should be disallowed in cases where there is an identifiable crime victim. [58] Jury nullification has more support among legal academics than judges. [59] Jury nullification has also been criticized for having resulted in the acquittal of whites who victimized blacks in the Deep South.