{"id":164518,"date":"2026-10-07T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/07\/the-supreme-courts-lone-jury-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:10:11","slug":"the-supreme-courts-lone-jury-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/07\/the-supreme-courts-lone-jury-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court\u2019s Lone Jury Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Supreme Court talks a lot about juries, but it very rarely will empanel one. In fact, there\u2019s only one reported instance of it happening. What is the only known instance of a Supreme Court jury trial?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: This unusual procedure arose under the Court\u2019s original jurisdiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/the-supreme-courts-lone-jury-trial\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Supreme Court\u2019s Lone Jury Trial<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/GettyImages-1386229149-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photographer: Stefani Reynolds\/Bloomberg)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Supreme Court talks a lot about juries, but it very rarely will empanel one. In fact, there\u2019s only one reported instance of it happening. What is the only known instance of a Supreme Court jury trial?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: This unusual procedure arose under the Court\u2019s original jurisdiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/the-supreme-courts-lone-jury-trial\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/the-supreme-courts-lone-jury-trial\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court talks a lot about juries, but it very rarely will empanel one. In fact, there\u2019s only one reported instance of it happening. What is the only known instance of a Supreme Court jury trial? Hint: This unusual procedure arose under the Court\u2019s original jurisdiction. See\u00a0the answer on the next page. The post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}