The Burden of Supremacy

[emosnail]

   I oftentimes find myself wishing I wasn't part of the highest judicial authority in ASUCD -- wishing that there was some appeal above me. Unlike everyone else, I don't get the priviledge of being vindicated by being proved right by higher court.
   Former senator Darth Lloyd says "The Court's improper action was the reason for removing its

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[dubloon]

Kris- I was thinking the same thing. I was recently in Berkeley and left a message for court system there to see if they would be interested in setting up some sort of informal dialogue. I was thinking about that idea a lot- some sort of forum between justices statewide across the UC system. I can start to contact them, not just for this particular issue, but as a kind of continuing, recurring dialogue, for any kind of issues to be debated and discussed throughout the system

-Tim

[furzicle]

"oftentimes find myself wishing I wasn't part of the highest judicial authority in ASUCD -- wishing that there was some appeal above me. Unlike everyone else, I don't get the priviledge of being vindicated by being proved right by higher court."

It must be a bummer to be on the Supreme Court of the US!

[emosnail]

Its like how atheletes are said to get depressed once they've made it to the olympics because tehy've gone as far as they can go -- or the unsatisfaction of playing a game with cheat codes.

At least in the US Supreme Court the debate things so novel and arcane that there is usually debate between the justices, and they can at least validate their existence by overcoming the resistence of their peers.

In ASUCD often the answers are glaringly clear due to precedence long since established in state and national law. And so it becomes a debate between us on the Court who believe in jurisprudence, and those outside the Court who believe in imagining solutions and then insisting that anyone who disagrees is illegitimate.

[twinkiebat]

cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!

cute

[emosnail]

You're talking about me dressed up all ghetto, right? =D

[thepeoplesmp]

Just as a hypothetical, could one of the non-elected (i.e. affected) parties of this doctrine of non-acceptance of the ruling by the senate seek injunctive relief from the supreme court, and, in essence, appeal the decision of the senate?

[emosnail]

I'm not sure what you're getting at, but there is a well entrenched precedent that the branches don't tell eachother what to do -- ie the Court doesn't issue injunctions against what goes on in the Senate chambers (though we can of course find their actions unconstitutional after the fact), and the Senate doesn't say, tell the Court what cases it can and cannot accept (but of course it does in a general sense, and if they changed a law a case was about the Court would probably drop it ... but they cannot compell the Court to drop it)

[orwell_troll]

I'm pretty sure the Senate actually did tell the court to drop a case in SB #36 ... though that may be removed one way or another.

[ashael]

Yay Bailey!

Ferrets

[emosnail]

Didn't you promise us pictures of your ferrets some time ago? How are they?

Re: Ferrets

[ashael]

Ferret... I only have one now. And I probably did. I need to borrow my aunts cam and take some pictures of the ferret, cat and dog.