Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"The jury trial is really a central feature of our justice system as the Founders envisioned it."

"I think judges are very much continually educated and affected by the public decisionmaking process that they steward."

"the important role of the jury not just in our system of justice but also in our system of Government"

"But it is your experience as a practitioner that, other things being equal, higher overcrowding will have a tendency to increase violence and risk within the population?"