FAVORABLE IMPUT:

• This organization is making a compelling and passionate call for the expansion of jury trial rights from family and juvenile in Texas to all other states starting in California
• It is ambitious
• It is case for restoring trust in American Institutions by asserting a foundational Constitutional right into our nation’s family and juvenile dependency courts.
• It is a rights-restoration campaign.
• The protection of jury trial rights could address the systemic harm caused by these courts.
• It is a clear leverage point aimed at restoring procedural fairness and rebalancing power in these court systems back to We The People.
• This small change can lead to significant impact.
• This organization is addressing a real, often overlooked source of institutional distrust, especially among low-income and marginalized families
• This organization addresses the coercive control these courts have on families.

HOWEVER:

• It is not clear that there is a connection between a lack of jury trial rights in family and juvenile dependency courts and the lack of trust in American Institutions.
• There is no evidence that jury trial rights would transform family and juvenile dependency courts or restore trust in other American Institutions.
• This organization has no coalition based strategies to connect with like-minded organizations
• This idea is clearly non-mainstream
• It will not cause catalytic change able to restore trust in American Institutions.
• Jury trial rights don’t seem like they will have a strong effect on the nation’s family and juvenile dependency courts or the lack of trust in American Institutions
• It is not a new reimagining of how to restore trust in American Institutions, states allow jury trial rights in some traffic courts, civil courts and all criminal courts [rarely in probate courts].
• This organization needs to provide a more nuanced or evidence-based support for how jury trial rights would reform family and juvenile dependency courts.
• This organization needs support from the legal profession [unlikely from divorce lawyers] and widespread public awareness campaigns.
• This solution is narrowly focused and will not scale to positively affecting all American families for generations to come