Seventh Amendment: Civil Juries, Arbitration, and Algorithmic Harm

Republicans are exposed on hypocrisy and inconsistency when they celebrate juries against agencies after Jarkesy while defending fine-print arbitration that strips juries from workers and consumers. Democrats are exposed on inconsistency: the same lawmakers who reintroduced the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act on September 15, 2025 (S. 2799 / H.R. 5350, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, and Rep. Hank Johnson, D-GA, with more than 80 House and 34 Senate co-sponsors) to bar predispute arbitration and class-action waivers for employment, consumer, antitrust, and civil-rights claims often measure civil-court modernization funding by case-clearance and processing-speed metrics rather than by whether it preserves jury access. That second half is an interpretive reading of how court-modernization funding debates typically run, not a claim tied to a specific bill. The Innovation Party's delta is to defend civil juries against both agency overreach and private waiver machinery.