[GA - PASSED] Repeal: "Equal Justice Under Law"

[Jag]

Repeal: "Equal Justice Under Law"
Category: Repeal | GA #572
Proposed by: Excidium Planetis | Onsite Topic
Replacement: Supremacy of Law Act​

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General Assembly Resolution #572 “Equal Justice Under Law” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

The Assembly of Worlds,

Believing in the value of holding public officials accountable for their actions, including ending unnecessary immunity from prosecution of crimes,

Arguing that nevertheless, GA#572 "Equal Justice Under Law" not only does not do that, but also even endorses such "qualified immunity" of public officials,

Stating the facts as such:

• GA#572 "Establishes that all private and public individuals, officials, entities, and institutions... be held accountable... under any guidelines and/or disciplinary measures that may be in use by a particular organization."
• GA#572 makes no rules regarding these disciplinary measures.
• Institutions in member nations may therefore set their own guidelines and disciplinary measures, including such things as paid administrative leave, and consider this to be sufficient accountability.

Encouraging the members of this Assembly to think carefully about the legislation they choose to enact in the future and whether it is really an improvement over the resolutions we frequently repeal,

Destroys "Equal Justice Under Law"

Note: Only votes from TNP WA nations and NPA personnel will be counted. If you do not meet these requirements, please add (non-WA) or something of that effect to your vote.

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Voting Instructions:

• Vote For if you want the Delegate to vote For the resolution.
• Vote Against if you want the Delegate to vote Against the resolution.
• Vote Abstain if you want the Delegate to abstain from voting on this resolution.
• Vote Present if you are personally abstaining from this vote.

Detailed opinions with your vote are appreciated and encouraged!

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For	Against	Abstain	Present
10	1	1	1

 

[Jag]

Overview
This proposal seeks to awesomely destroy GA#572 "Equal Justice Under Law", a resolution aimed at ensuring accountability for all persons equally under law, while making provisions for immunity from prosecution to be extended to individuals conducting legislative activity. This repeal takes aim at a perceived fundamental ambiguity in the target's main legislative clause, noting that its requirement to take "disciplinary measures" does not clarify the extent of these measures. The repeal also questions the need to allow public officials to have immunity from prosecutions.

Recommendation
The Ministry of Assembly of Worlds Affairs believes the deficiencies noted by this proposal are worthy of the repeal. Firstly, the loophole regarding the disciplinary measures essentially renders the most important part of the target resolution useless. In addition, some of the few remaining clauses of the target resolution, as noted in the proposal, work against the aim of equal justice for all by permitting the granting of special immunity to those who may be least deserving of it.

For the above reasons, the Ministry recommends a vote For the General Assembly resolution at vote, Repeal: "Equal Justice Under Law".

This IFV was written in collaboration with our World Assembly Legislative League partners.

 

[thenightfire]

For

 

[Holy Marcus Empire]

For

 

[Magecastle]

For, as there is a replacement.

 

[TheLandOfFunFunFun]

For

 

[nvxl]

destroyed by stated facts and the a s s e m b l y o f w o r l d s

 

[Greater Cesnica]

For

 

[Fili]

For

 

[Loh]

For

 

[Namwenia]

Abstain

 

[Simone]

Present

 

[Zash]

For

 

[Fregerson]

For

 

[Pallaith]

Voted For

 

[Transitional Authority]

Against.

 

[JOHN ANTO]

For

 

[Jag]

(Non-WA) For

 

[Wilkshire]

Against

 

[Fregerson]

Repeal "Equal Justice Under Law" was passed 13,066 votes (88.1%) to 1,764.