Breaking News
Breaking news: Constitutional crisis in ASUCD! Senate rejects legitimacy of ASUCD Supreme Court Hearing. Proposes overriding election codes to seat disputed candidates. Moves into closed session.
Lets review:
Solutions, from least violative of the bylaws to most
A) certify the legitimacy of the case -- which would therefore loop this process through two of the three branchs of government, invoking no more violation than in effect a suspension of the bylaws effecting court quorum (a much smaller irregularity than that proposed to effect the election codes)
B) not certify the hearing, reject resignations of previous court members who are still students (this would not actually violate any bylaw as there is nothing regarding the formal process of accepting resignations, and in real life this does happen, for example the President of Bolivia tried to resign repeatedly but had the resignation rejected by Senate ... finally they let him, the VP resigned (successfully) ... the Chief Justice ended up as President.)
C) Court finds that quorum did in fact exist. (the fifth member was in fact literally in the room. This is a counterintuitive interpretation of the bylaw, but is certainly less shady than things the senate is considering)
D) not certify the hearing, consider senators to remain in offce, induct new court members next meetings
E) not certify the hearing, sit here and stare at eachother, until the end of time.
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F) conduct a highly irregular and pointed override of the elections codes, creating massive public outrage.
Interestingly, I scooped myself by posting this in the Daviswiki first.
Lets review:
Solutions, from least violative of the bylaws to most
A) certify the legitimacy of the case -- which would therefore loop this process through two of the three branchs of government, invoking no more violation than in effect a suspension of the bylaws effecting court quorum (a much smaller irregularity than that proposed to effect the election codes)
B) not certify the hearing, reject resignations of previous court members who are still students (this would not actually violate any bylaw as there is nothing regarding the formal process of accepting resignations, and in real life this does happen, for example the President of Bolivia tried to resign repeatedly but had the resignation rejected by Senate ... finally they let him, the VP resigned (successfully) ... the Chief Justice ended up as President.)
C) Court finds that quorum did in fact exist. (the fifth member was in fact literally in the room. This is a counterintuitive interpretation of the bylaw, but is certainly less shady than things the senate is considering)
D) not certify the hearing, consider senators to remain in offce, induct new court members next meetings
E) not certify the hearing, sit here and stare at eachother, until the end of time.
...
F) conduct a highly irregular and pointed override of the elections codes, creating massive public outrage.
Interestingly, I scooped myself by posting this in the Daviswiki first.