It's the "law". You don't get to have a say ,no one does but those who practice it ..and they claim that that is Fair and Just ... judges have been given near Godhood since they obscured the public from knowing the right of jury nullification..

They had a great reason for doing it though.. it's because people were using it to let white racists to kill blacks in murder trials ..

However,this should of been handled differently,other than taking away the right by making people ignorant or just taking the right away..

Could be a provision to let the judge have the ability to put the jury on trial.. by a grand jury.. I don't know but there has to be a better way.

We all should have had been taught law in kindergarten through middle grade,it doesn't have a need to be so complicated as it is..

I'm sure everyone knowing the law and having all the same knowledge,no one could get away with doing anything wrong to anyone ,judges couldn't get away with forcing prayer ,or anything else that meets their fancy..

Instead of living in a child like society,we can all be adults...

Hopefully this bad ruling will not stand

One of the 5th circuit judges on this case is Patrick E. Higginbotham. He was appointed to the District Court by Gerald Ford in 1975. He earned his undergrad and law degrees in Alabama. In 1996 Higginbotham upheld upheld the Religious Freedom Restoration Act against the claim that the Act exceeded Congress's powers under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court later reversed the decision. The Act states "Government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability."

Another is Edith Jones, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1985. She got her BA at Cornell and he law degree at Univ. of Texas. group of civil rights organizations and legal ethicists filed a complaint of misconduct against Jones on June 4, 2013, after she had allegedly said that "racial groups like African-Americans and Hispanics are predisposed to crime" and are "prone to commit acts of violence" that are more "heinous" than members of other ethnic groups.[15][16] According to the complaint, Jones also stated that a death sentence is a service to defendants because it allows them to make peace with God and that she "referred to her personal religious views as justification for the death penalty." Jones allegedly made the remarks during a speech to the University of Pennsylvania Federalist Society. However, the speech was not recorded, and the ethics complaint was based solely on affidavits from audience members.

The third is Andy Oldham, a
Republican, appointed by Donald Trump in 2018. He got his BA at University of Virginia, his MPhil at
University of Cambridge, and his JD at Harvard University. In 2015, Oldham wrote an amicus curiae brief in support of Texas Governor Gregg Abbott's successful challenge of President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order. Oldham has been an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law since 2019. He has been a member of the Federalist Society since 2002.

As of this writing I don't know which two voted to endorse Mack's bible thumping from the bench.

.This is exactly what third rate nanny states do…..in the name of ‘morality’.

Who appointed the two judges on Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals who ruled in favor of Mack? Are they from the Federalist Society list?

I would be held in contempt of court SO fast!!!