Left-Wing Activists Target Jury Selection Process, Training Volunteers To Sneak On To Juries and ‘Nullify’ Trump Administration Prosecutions
Plus, Arkansas Democrat running for Senate on 'fairness' backed race-based hiring and admissions policies
A left-wing activist group is teaching citizens in D.C. how to get on juries and vote to acquit defendants in cases brought by the Trump Justice Department, according to materials reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The group, Freedom Trainers—whose fiscal sponsor is the far-left, Soros-funded nonprofit Community Change—promotes “jury nullification,” the practice of voting “not guilty” even when jurors believe the defendant broke the law. Training slides instruct participants to conceal their motives—“never mention jury nullification,” avoid signaling political motives, “dress in neutral clothes,” and say they will consider the evidence fairly. So leave the Che Guevara T-shirt at home.
Once selected for a jury, trainees are told they can vote to acquit “for any reason you believe is just.” A pamphlet distributed by the group says jurors can reject a conviction “even if the technical elements of the crime were technically met.” Freedom Trainers cofounder Daniel Hunter described the tactic as “a legal remedy to correct when the court system, when the Department of Justice, has gone astray and awry.”
Freedom Trainers says it was formed in late 2024 to prepare activists for a second Trump administration and claims to have trained “hundreds of thousands of committed people” nationwide.
D.C.-based grand juries have recently refused to issue indictments in several Justice Department efforts, including a protester who threw a sandwich at a Border Patrol officer. It is highly unusual for grand juries to go against prosecutors’ wishes.
The Justice Department warned that efforts to influence juries undermine the judicial system. “While we respect jurors’ role in the judicial process, the Department takes jury nullification and interference with official proceedings extremely seriously,” a DOJ spokeswoman said, adding that groups attempting to improperly sway jurors “should be held accountable.”
The Democratic nominee challenging Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), self-styled “farmer” Hallie Shoffner, is running a Senate campaign centered on “fairness.” To that end, she says the government should make race-based hiring and admissions decisions. Months before launching her bid, in February 2025, Shoffner testified against a state law, eventually signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R.), that prohibits state agencies, public school districts, colleges, and universities from engaging in race-based “discrimination or preferential treatment.” She said it would hurt “groups like people of color” who are “forced to begin 15 feet behind the starting line.”
“Under the guise of equality, SB3 will make it harder for these groups to succeed in careers as teachers and public servants,” she said. “Laws like this push us backward and not forward.”
On the campaign trail in ruby-red Arkansas, Shoffner is casting herself in a different light. Her campaign is about “fairness, dignity, and opportunity for everyone who works hard in Arkansas.” It doesn’t reference the diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that Shoffner has long supported. In a September 2024 interview, Shoffner said she was “committed to the importance of DEI” because “representation of race, gender, and culture in agriculture is important.”
“Shoffner has cast herself both as a beneficiary of DEI and as a white woman who has benefited from a rigged system,” the Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson writes. “‘Women are DEI. Small farmers are DEI. Young farmers are DEI. Beginning farmers are DEI. I’m DEI,’ she posted to the liberal social media site Bluesky in February 2025. At the same time, she has said that, because she is white, she has a ‘responsibility’ to make the agriculture industry ‘more equitable’ for others.”
Elsewhere:
It was a banner weekend in Zohran Mamdani’s New York. First, radical demonstrators held a vigil for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, chanting, “Iran’s missiles will reply.”
Then, two pro-Muslim fanatics—who trained with ISIS overseas, according to the New York Post—threw a makeshift bomb at police and protesters outside the mayor’s official residence, Gracie Mansion, when Mamdani and his virulently anti-Israel wife were inside. The fanatics were clashing with protesters demonstrating against “the Islamic takeover of New York City.” The bomb failed to detonate, but it was packed with explosives and could have killed people, according to the police commissioner. The New York Times referred to one of the bomb-throwers as a “counterprotester” facing down “far-right activists.” The two men were arrested on the scene.
Mamdani described the ordeal as “disturbing” but did not name the alleged attackers, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi. (He did defend his wife for “liking” social media posts celebrating Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack.)
The Iranian regime has reportedly named Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, its new supreme leader—and he’ll have to find a new military secretary after Abu al-Qassem Baba’iyan was killed in an Israeli strike, according to Israeli defense minister Israel Katz. Baba’iyan wasn’t on the job long—he was appointed following the death of his predecessor in Israel’s opening strike. Katz told IDF commanders to “keep hunting them all.”
As some suggest that Iran didn’t actually try to assassinate President Donald Trump, a Pakistani was convicted for plotting with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to murder the president and other U.S. officials.
Remember when Stephen Colbert took to the airwaves to suggest that the Trump administration intervened at the 11th hour to intimidate his bosses into pulling an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico? Both Colbert and Talarico knew days before the interview actually took place that it would not air on TV due to concerns from CBS lawyers, but Talarico sat down with Colbert anyway, hoping that Colbert “would tell his audience the story of federal interference,” the New York Times reported. Talarico then milked the hubbub for earned media, millions of dollars in fundraising, and a primary win over Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
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No we fight this, otherwise these communists will win. The early Revolutionist fought the fight.