Sheldon Whitehouse on civil juries and mandatory arbitration

Read Senator Whitehouse's essay. Here's the intro:

In recent years corporations have racked up significant victories before the U.S. Supreme Court — a corporate windfall that has come at the expense of Americans who are unable to win redress for their injuries. These decisions have also worked an often overlooked harm: They have made it harder for the civil jury to play its constitutional function in our American system of government.

[HT Paul Bland]