The Agrinautica

Dubious Adventures with Senators
   Yesterday, Thursday, three ASUCD Senators and the Chief Justice were found on the fifth floor of the MU and told to leave by an unidentified official. Ironically the individuals in question constitute one fourth of the governming board which officially owns the Memorial Union, and the head of the branch that decides what they can and cannot do.

   Shortly thereafter, Senator Thomas Lloyd regaled some of us with his thoughts on how there is no need for an ASUCD Supreme Court because if there is ever a question of the meaning of a bylaw the Senate could solve it through legislation. I asked him who would protect the rights of the minority party if say one party had 2/3rds of the seats as Focus recently did for a year, to which he responded something along the lines of "well the Court could be just as biased as Senators." This caused Gordon "I was President of my JC" Fung to become emotionally destraught. After he had stormed out of the room I countered Lloyd with "but no really unless you can either cite an example of the judicial branch failing in a similar institution, or evidence of our justices voting along party lines, to say it doesn't work as you do is nothing more than utterly unsubstantiated speculation that flies in the face of existing evidence." He appears to remain dedicated to the elimination of the judicial branch and any other checks on legislative power.
   He also expressed an interest in banning the Chief Justice from Senate meetings. This led current chief justice myself to ask him "Why do you hate justice, Senator Lloyd?"


Picture of the Day

Jadine's feet