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View More NewsAccording to The Washington Post, “The chairman of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee is investigating two D.C.-based activist groups over hosting what he called ‘jury nullification training sessions,’ claiming that their instructions given to potential jurors were an illegal attempt to subvert federal prosecutors.” The committee chair in question, Rep. James Comer (R–Ky.), has set his sights on the groups known as Free DC and Harriet’s Wildest Dreams because they, in Comer’s words, believe “that potential jurors should not make decisions impartially based on applying the law as instructed to the facts presented before them in the case, but based…
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As has been well documented at Quillette, Canada recently experienced a widespread social panic following false claims that the “unmarked graves” of 215 Indigenous children had been discovered on the grounds of a former residential school that was operated by the Catholic Church between 1890 and 1969. The lurid narrative, which first emerged in 2021, suggested that sadistic priests and nuns had ruthlessly dispatched these children and buried them surreptitiously (in the dark of night, according to the most breathless media accounts), presumably as a means to hide their crimes. In the five years that have passed since this sensational…
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