I don't know the answers except that they don't adjust these for inflation. But I do know from years of watching politics that the old record isn't anywhere close to this. I don't recall ever even seeing $10 million raised in one day.
Are you saying they're reducing jury size? The Supreme Court ruled years ago that non-unanimous criminal convictions are unconstitutional, but I guess they can just change the rules at any moment to undo that like so much else they're at work on overturning.
Poor Hong Kongers. They did everything right and their freedom was stolen away still. COVID robbed them of their self-determination, or at least what they retained of it under Chinese rule.
I don't know the answers except that they don't adjust these for inflation. But I do know from years of watching politics that the old record isn't anywhere close to this. I don't recall ever even seeing $10 million raised in one day.