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  • Can Feds Be Prosecutor, Judge & Jury? [semi-satire]

    12/02/2023 1:47:22 AM PST · by John Semmens · 5 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 3 December 2023 | John Semmens
    This week, the US Supreme Court heard arguments from hedge fund manager George Jarkesy, in his appeal that the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) fining and barring him from the industry for securities fraud violated his Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. Michael McColloch, attorney for Jarkesy, argued that "the procedure in which the SEC acts as prosecutor, judge, and jury is fundamentally unfair. The person accused by the SEC has the burden of trying to persuade people who already deem him guilty that he's not. His right to be judged by an unbiased jury of his peers has...
  • the 7th Amendment

    03/08/2009 5:22:57 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 18 replies · 1,534+ views
    In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.