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April 27th, 2014 Our Regional Forum Senate Elections Europeians take a break from their daily schedules to vote. Dr. Yuri Razhtigr 16 Drecq 13 Kraketopia 16 Raging Zen Master 13 Elias Greyjoy 13 Cormac 15 On April 18th, Europeians voted for their next Senate. Six members ran for the 6...

April 7th, 2014 Our Regional Forum Elections in Europeia yield Anumia a third term Europeia recently concluded General Elections for the Presidency of the region. Incumbent President Anumia was re-elected over darkhorse candidate Zenny. Anumia campaigned on advancing his Grand Architecture...

TNP Nation: Malashaan TNP Justice: Tim

I, Malashaan, do hereby solemnly swear that during my term as Temporary Hearing Officer, 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...

I think we need to distinguish between active and passive bias. By actively biased I mean judges who go into a case wanting a certain outcome and care about that outcome more than the law. By passively biased I mean judges who come to the table with certain preconceptions, but are not actively...

I agree that having one justice appoint THOs is problematic. An alternate solution would be to change how THOs are appointed. Either the Delegate could always appoint them (although this would require a back up for the case that the delegate has a clear conflict, such as being the defendant)...

TNP Nation: Malashaan TNP Delegate: Mcmasterdonia Vice Delegate: Sanctaria Speaker: Crushing Our Enemies

Loks good. My only suggestion is a minor clarifying amendment, amending 12 to read: Arguably, under the current wording, if someone declared an absence and never returned, they would remain a member of the RA indefinitely. Explicitly limiting immunity from removal to a stated period of absence...

I concur. The precedent clearly places the burden on the petitioner to demonstrate they are an affected party under the law.

Here are my initial thoughts on the state of law and issues at hand: The Constitution states: and There is no contention in this case as to whether the positions were indeed legally vacant, so we should assume that they were, based on the common perception that they were. This requires no...

I'm waiting for r3naissanc3r as chief Justice. I imagine he'll upper this later, but I'll provide initial thoughts tomorrow if he does not.

I am in favor. This brings my favorite GCR and favorite UCR together and I will be supporting it from both sides.

It is now fixed.

Thanks, that's got it.

My THO masking appears to need tweaking. I don't have permission to view the special court chambers. Thanks.

I can only speak for myself, but looking at the recent history of votes, the norm is for about it to take about a month for the proposed piece of legislation to work it's way through the system and become law. In the other regions I've been involved with, that time-frame has been 4-7 days...

Just to throw a different perspective out there, I suspect that one of the problems we have in attracting and retaining active people is the speed at which things move. For my tastes, and compared to what I am used to in other regions, things move incredibly slowly in TNP. I wouldn't be...

Thank you for showing confidence in me Chief justice, I have sworn my oath and I am ready to begin.

I, Malashaan, do hereby solemnly swear that during my term as Temporary Hearing Officer, 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...

I support this as is.

If we want to balance cabinet flexibility with a legal obligation to ensure certain functions are performed we could use a constriction along the lines of "The Delegate shall be empowered and obligated to appoint such Ministers as required to perform the functions of ..." i.e., as long as...

This would massively reduce the activity level in the region. A lot of people here are active in other regions and military organizations as well as TNP's government. Is duality a real problem for TNP? I don't get any sense that it is. This seems like a solution looking for a problem to me.

The point still remains that, whatever terminology Gaspo (incorrectly) used, the law is very clear that only the AG has authority to prosecute. I would also reiterate that there is a huge legal and ethical issue with appointees that don't even require any kind of confirmation unilaterally taking...

That is where we disagree, I was an assistant, not a deputy, and there is an important difference between those terms. Deputy is defined as "a person appointed or authorized to act as a substitute for another or others" - if we had a deputy AG, I would fully agree with you, the deputy should...

I would happily serve with Gracius Maximus, I want to publicly state that while I disagree with him strongly on this issue, I don't see it as a personal issue, and I think he is a good candidate. I hope he feels the same.

That's a redirection, and one I've addressed in my own thread. I would still be interested in hearing your response to the original question. Following up from the discussion in that thread, why should voters have confidence in you to uphold the law when you are advocating, both here and in my...

You're grasping at straws here. I got asked if I was interested in preparing some briefs, to which I responded saying I would do it. I proceeded to prepare the drafts (more slowly than I would have liked, but real life happens now and again - I generally work pretty quickly). I waited around a...

The law prevents deputy AGs from doing so. The legal code explicitly states that "The Attorney General will serve as Chief Prosecutor in all cases brought before the Court of the North Pacific" (Legal Code, Chapter 3, Section 3.1, Clause 4, emphasis added). Assistant AGs have no legal standing...

How do you justify stating that the candidates getting the most votes are those that favor the status quo? Every candidate has stated that the law and rules need revising. Further, I've never held a significant office in TNP, so I fail to see how I could be considered "more of the same."

TNP Nation: malashaan_TNP Justice 1: r3naissanc3r Justice 2: Malashaan Justice 3: Romanoffia Attorney General: Blue Wolf II