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While all of what you said might be true... it shouldn't be a felony to hand out flyers telling people what others had decided not to tell them. If the jury has a set of rights then they should be made aware of those rights, even the unpopular ones. If people feel strongly enough that a particular jury right should be revoked, then they should pursue steps to revoke it. But they really shouldn't be arresting people for passing out that information.

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> If people feel strongly enough that a particular jury right should be revoked, then they should pursue steps to revoke it.

It's hard to see how the nullification and anti-nullification powers could be revoked without massively changing the role of the jury. Nullification follows from the double jeopardy rule and the jury not being liable for a "wrong" decision (except in special cases, like a juror selling their vote). Anti-nullification follows from the latter and from judges and appeals courts not having a way to detect anti-nullification.

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