{"id":1245,"date":"2004-10-25T14:15:58","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T18:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/trusting_juries\/"},"modified":"2004-10-25T14:15:58","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T18:15:58","slug":"trusting_juries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/trusting_juries\/","title":{"rendered":"Trusting Juries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush has been out about the country stumping for &#8220;medical liability reform.&#8221;  The rationale behind this being that juries can&#8217;t be trusted to award reasonable verdicts for damages and thus the federal government must step in with arbitrary caps.<br \/>\nYesterday on C-SPAN I saw Elizabeth Edwards make an excellent point regarding this.  She pointed out that as governor of Texas, Bush never questioned the judgment of juries when they sentenced people to be executed.  Although a number of governors have recently grappled with the known imperfections in our criminal justice system, Bush had no qualms whatsoever with Texas&#8217; assembly-line style execution process.<br \/>\nSo when it comes to a trivial matter like life or death, George W. Bush has no problem with the wisdom of our jury system.  But when corporate or insurance company profits are on the line, juries clearly can&#8217;t be trusted to get things right.<br \/>\nPriorities, priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/trusting_juries\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Trusting Juries\"><p>President Bush has been out about the country stumping for &#8220;medical liability reform.&#8221; The rationale behind this being that juries can&#8217;t be trusted to award reasonable verdicts for damages and thus the federal government must step in with arbitrary caps. Yesterday on C-SPAN I saw Elizabeth Edwards make an excellent point regarding this. She pointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}