A new billboard in D.C. is asking jurors to forget about the law, and go with their gut when it comes to acquitting defendants. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with two former federal prosecutors ...

Some of the largest charities in the world are bankrolling a pair of nonprofit organizations that serve as the parent ...

The weeks surrounding Independence Day are always a good time to assess the American experiment in liberty. For all of our successes, there remains a lot of discontent across the political spectrum.

Increasing public sympathy for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, could pose the possibility of jury nullification despite the overwhelming ...

In theory, yes. But not in the world we actually live in, where law enforcement is already rife with numerous discretionary decisions made unavoidable by the fact that we have far too many laws. In a ...

In an era where trust in institutions crumbles beneath the weight of partisan judges and zealous prosecutors, a forgotten cornerstone of American liberty lies dormant: jury nullification. This is not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the law, technology and the free flow of information. Jury nullification is where a jury renders a "not guilty" ...

Nullification is a constitutional theory that a state<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state> has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that ...

In the 19 th century, nullification was the idea that states could void the actions of the federal government if they deemed them unconstitutional. Its proponents, chief among them John C. Calhoun, ...