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Since the Defendant has not entered a formal plea, the Court will appoint a defense attorney for them. Willing counsel are invited to contact the Court, and an announcement will be made within the next two days.

I've posted the correspondence in the thread and stated that the Court will take a brief recess to determine how to proceed. Should I ask for a clarifying statement from the Defendant? Should we simply appoint a defense attorney and proceed that way? Or should we take this as a guilty verdict...

I've received this message from Haafingar and Hjaalmarch via telegram in response to my notification of his trial thread: The Court will take a brief recess to determine how to proceed.

I've received this message from Haafingar and Hjaalmarch via telegram in response to my notification of his trial thread: Do we take this as a guilty plea? Do we appoint a defense attorney and continue with the trial anyway?

The Defendant has been notified of the opening of this trial thread via forum PM and by telegram to the nation of haafingar_and_hjaalmarch.

This Court is now in session and will hear the case of The North Pacific v. Haafingar and Hjaalmarch as filed by Treize Dreizehn, Deputy Attorney General of The North Pacific here. Representing The North Pacific will be Chasmanthe, Attorney General, and Treize Dreizehn, Deputy Attorney...

Great, I'll try and have it up tomorrow.

Sounds good to me.

I, Ator People, a Minnow (274 SPDR) with 212 endorsements, apply to join the Security Council.

Very well written, let's go ahead and publish it.

I'd actually prefer to have civil trials but if we as an Assembly can't pass a bill to define how that's going to work, I'd rather have no civil trials than trials where we just guess at how the law is supposed to be applied.

Agreed. The second election should never gave taken place, and there never should have been an option to reopen nominations.

Grosse, if the NPA failed to report a mission to the Regional Assembly, how is it operating in accord with Chapter 8, Section 5C? It seems to be that if the NPA is not operating so that the Regional Assembly can override any deployment then it would not be operating in accord with that clause...

Of course I'd like to prohibit the North Pacific Army from raiding not related to national security, but such a law would not pass which is why I won't propose it. What might pass, however, would be a law requiring transparency with regard NPA raids. What good is Chapter 8, Section 5C (quoted...

If this resolution is going to have any chance, it needs to be better written, but I would be willing to support an opportunity for the RA to vote against missions not related to defense or regional security.

Considering this bill failed by one vote, is there an interest in reopening discussion and potentially putting forth a modified version that could get more support?

I'm happy with that opinion for the most part, though I'm fine discussing it more via IRC. Also for our court business list: can we make sure the complaint docket is updated (per this concern http://forum.thenorthpacific.org/single/?p=8131292&t=7169113). And I've placed my vote for Chief...

For.

I vote Romanoffia for Chief Justice; let's get things up and running as soon as possible.

Thanks for the welcome! How shall we proceed with the selection of Chief Justice?

I, Ator People, do hereby solemnly swear that during my term as Justice, I will uphold the ideals of Democracy, Freedom, and Justice of The Region of The North Pacific. I will use the powers and rights granted to me through The North Pacific Constitution and Legal Code in a legal, responsible...

Ator People Court Justice (Pick 3): Abstain Would you like to reopen nominations? No Attorney General: Abstain Would you like to reopen nominations? No

Zaolat's security check is clean.

Point of order, Mr. Speaker: why was this not necessary when the bill was moved to a vote the first time?

I've decided to put forth my name as a candidate for Justice. To start it off, I've written a few questions of my own. Who are you, exactly? I held my first government position in TNP in 2005. Since then, I've served in various capacities in the region, including as Vice Delegate and on the...

I would like to declare my candidacy for Justice.

Then I guess it makes sense to go ahead and send this to the floor? I motion for a vote.

With debate continuing, can we work on finalizing clause 2? My recent proposal was something like this, but I want to clarify whether this conveys the author's original intent:

Against.

It may not be defined, but it's been used several times in the Legal Code so at this point that seems like another issue for either the RA or judiciary to deal with. I'd also be open to using "nation of The North Pacific". It may open us up to more complaints, but it ensures that all nations...