Justice committee  I don't think I have anything to add.

Justice committee  I haven't done a detailed federalism analysis of this issue. I know, though, that Breese has some things to say about the potential spending aspect of things, so I'll leave her a moment. The way it tends to be framed is that we tend to talk about everything up until the point of

Justice committee  It's a very interesting and complicated question. With few exceptions, we have resisted any kind of jury vetting on the front end. In the U.S., there is a very extensive voir dire system where potential jurors are asked a number of questions by the lawyers about features that m

Justice committee  It would be only a sentence or two.

Justice committee  It's really not complicated.

Justice committee  I think it's absolutely true that it's a stress if the potential juror even gets that far, right? One of the concerns is that individuals will seek pre-emptively to be excused. Potential jurors who've received a summons will seek to be excused on the basis that they have child ca

Justice committee  A lot of the time, either these individuals are excused before they ever show up to court or they show up to court and provide their explanation and they're excused. That obviously is a huge problem. Then, of course, for those jurors who do end up sitting, this inadequate incom

Justice committee  I'm going to pick up on the diversity point that Breese raised. Another way of thinking about the broader context of the discussion we're having today is to think about the whole range of supports that are or are not available to jurors when they end up performing this importan