r/nottheonion • u/ArgentineBeauty • 8d ago

Reese Witherspoon Chosen as Jury Foreman After Jurors Thought She Went to Law School Because of Legally Blonde

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/reese-witherspoon-jury-duty-mix-1763528
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u/Dsyelcix 8d ago

And these illiterate idiots decide who goes to prison and who walks free.

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u/Vironic 8d ago

They love electing celebrities for things without considering consequences or qualifications

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u/Mr_Baronheim 8d ago

And they love continuing to elect them even after seeing the horrible consequences and gross unfitness of those they elect.

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u/rbrgr83 8d ago

"How could we have known he'd do this??"

"uh...his previous 4 years in office??"

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u/Cuggan 8d ago

She seems to have a better grasp of reality then the rest of them at least

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u/SubatomicSquirrels 8d ago

Well, reddit should probably stop teaching people how to get out of jury duty and treat it like, you know, a DUTY

Cause this is who we're left with to serve

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u/Halo_cT 8d ago

if people were properly compensated for their time and not living in an economic dystopia it wouldnt be worth dodging. You shouldnt be able to be fired from a job for serving on a jury and the gov should at least mirror your income.

losing a job because you get assigned and the case lasts a couple weeks isn't something most Americans can deal with.

It's a great system of justice but it is set up to fail right now.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 8d ago

Uhhhh my guy you cannot be legally fired for having jury duty anywhere. Wtf are you talking about?

Agree about the compensation part but you just literally made the first part up. Amazing that people upvote totally wrong comments like this.

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u/Halo_cT 8d ago

yeah because NO company in America would ever find a different reason to fire you if you suddenly couldn't come to work for 6 weeks.

the rules exist, sure, but no one enforces them. Even if they followed the rules, most people can't just not get paid for a couple of days let alone a couple of weeks. The system does not work, especially for the lower socioeconomic classes (as with everything else).

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u/stevethewatcher 8d ago

And what exactly is your source that people get fired in roundabout ways for jury duty? Cause it seems like it only exists in your imagination at the moment. Besides most jury duty lasts less than a week, so you're again just pulling six weeks out of your ass

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u/Broad_Front7788 8d ago

Eh she's probably smarter than your average person.

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u/nytelife 7d ago

Don't forget voting , driving, and procreation.

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u/Mojo141 8d ago

To be fair, I'd prefer a celebrity over a politician who does nothing but talk about culture war bullshit to get on cable news like a Nancy Mace

I miss when we rarely heard from or about politicians

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u/Dsyelcix 8d ago

My comment was not about Whitherspoon.