Opposing Justice

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   So reportedly newly appointed ASUCD comptroller Kai Savaree-Ruess, having completed his crusade to combine ASUCD's two massive volumes of bylaws into one hulking uber-volume of bylaws*, and having just finished with budget hearings, has now turned his attention to the Court. At the Internal Affairs Commission on Monday he made a presentation revealing his aspiration to eliminate the Court from ASUCD -- he does not believe ASUCD needs a Court.
   We all had a good laugh last year, when Darth Lloyd tried to eliminate the Court because he believed in the absolute supremacy of senate, but it was only funny once. I've got better things to do than fight the same battle against the roundheads every year.
   Sources believe Ruess's presentation Monday was intended to set the foundation for an upcoming constitutional amendment he intends to write to eliminate the Court.


   *The principal effect of combining the Senate's Standing Rules with the Government Codes (other than making it more tedious to find anything) was in forging a bold statement that the rules of order for Legislative Branch meetings are one and the same with the branch-wide guidelines -- that the Senate is the Government.


   On any account, it would have been nice of him to give someone in the Judicial Branch a heads up that he was about to propose radical changes to it.


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Comments

[sivart13.livejournal.com]

You don't have to worry too much about them merging the two documents together; none of the senators read either of them before and this will just make it easier as everyone only has to not-read one thing.

[jtleathers.livejournal.com]

Of all the "governments" in the world, ASUCD should be the last one to eliminate checks and balances.

What's also funny, is that apparently Court interviews took place on Monday. However, I wasn't told about this, even though I'm supposed to sit in on the interviews.

[oeaschwab.livejournal.com]

The court shall not be dimissed! I will fight for it, even if Joe Harney is the biggest douche bag this side of the biggest douche bag factory in Douchebaggery, Alabamma. Zip code 837613.

[cedyeus.livejournal.com]

Love you too Schwabbie

[crazydiamond42.livejournal.com]

Why is the senate so fucking power hungry?

[anonymous-frosh.livejournal.com]

Would you expect a popularity contest involving a (now) 10.5 million dollar budget to yield winners who are anything but?

Momento Mori

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we should adopt the Roman custom of having someone chant "remember you are mortal" behind Emperors as they are crowned.

[crazydiamond42.livejournal.com]

Great way of putting it.

Re: Momento Mori

[anonymous-frosh.livejournal.com]

Interesting concept, but I bet the person chanting would be quite quickly forced to confront their own mortality. If the tradition were to be changed after the loss of the first life, I'm sure that the emperor's would have a different idea of who needs to be aware of their mortality....How do you say "Activist Judges" in Latin?

Re: Momento Mori

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

To my knowledge, the chanters didn't have their mortality terminated. Probably because it was a centuries-old tradition (literally, carried over from reminding successful generals of the same thing as they triumphantly paraded through Rome during the time of the Republic), and an Emperor on their first day on the job probably didn't have enough political capitol to go against that.

I don't know how to say "activist judge" in latin, but if you find out I'd be interested to know. Also, are you implying something here? (=