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Where "is the constitutional grant of authority to ban mere possession of cocaine today?"

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Where "is the constitutional grant of authority to ban mere possession of cocaine today?"

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008

Does the Constitution allow jury nullification? Thomas R. Eddlem certainly thinks so. As the Cato Institute's Tim Lynch details in a superb post , Eddlem was booted off a jury for daring to question federal drug laws: The jury sent a note to the trial judge with the following query: Since the Constitution needed to be amended in 1919 to authorize federal criminal prosecutions for manufacturing and...

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Jury Nullification

Sierra Faith (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008

Interesting story with many informative links.

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A Huge Discussion

Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008

on jury nullification over at The Volokh Conspiracy - - There is little question that, at the Founding, jurors were triers of both the law and the facts. In essence, this provided a popular check on an overreaching legislature and a supine judiciary, although a check that would only operate on a case-by-case basis. A jury [...]

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The puppet jury

Vox Popoli (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008

I don't see why they even bother making people show up to pretend they're a jury anymore. If a juror doesn't do what the judge wants, they're thrown out anyhow: It was supposed to be just another federal drug prosecution. The federal prosecutors introduced evidence that the man on trial was involved in the black market drug trade. The defense attorney said the government agents entrapped his client....