Juries for democracy

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Yoram Gat

Sam Wang tells the story of how a grand jury refused to indict a man for assault by sandwich, segues to allotted electoral districting commissions and concludes with the following

Jury-style mechanisms may be one of our best remaining tools for fair governance.

Filed under: Elections, Juries, Press, Sortition |

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  1. keithsutherland's avatar
    keithsutherland, on December 20, 2025 at 9:45 am said:

    It’s ironic at a time of the burgeoning interest in the political potential of sortition for citizens’ assemblies etc, the UK government is proposing to seriously curtail trial by jury. The Journal of Sortition is publishing a symposium on this next year, see: https://sortition-agora.com/ Submissions to Ethan Leib: eleib1@fordham.edu

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