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Say No, but provide that elaboration, and see what happens. You're still lying, dude.
What do I need to elaborate? My beliefs are based entirely on the law. I hold no beliefs that would prevent me from making a decision on anything but the law.
I can make that statement under penalty of perjury. If you want to claim it is a lie, make your case. I am confident I can convince my own jury that I am speaking the truth.
You're acting like you found some defensible loophole but your cageyness means you know it won't work if the facts were laid out before jury selection.
The question isn't about "the" law it means "any" law. The judge is asking you if you're going to enforce the law for which they are under trial, not if you're here to enforce the constitution. If that is what you wanted to do you would vote guilty and let them appeal to the Supreme Court because they are the constitution people, not you.
I addressed that fact in the very beginning. The judge is bound by the doctrine of separation of powers. The judge must assume that legislated law is valid unless it is demonstrated to conflict with superior law, such as the constitution. The judge cannot exercise any powers reserved to the legislature. Empaneling a juror they know to be willing to exercise a legislative power would violate the separation of powers doctrine. The judge can't do that.
The judge also cannot prohibit a juror from deciding a case on the basis that the legislature failed to adequately consider the accused's situation. Doing so is unconstitutional: it makes the juror an agent of the government, rather than a peer of the accused.
The jury is not the only entity empowered to ignore the legislature. "Pardons" are an important executive check on an out-of-touch legislature. The unlimited power to acquit is the same thing.
This "loophole" as you call it is perfectly defensible. As a juror, I will be compelled to make statements under penalty of perjury. How would you convict me for answering "No" to the question at hand?