Pallaith for Justice XI: We're Still Doing This

It's been a minute since the last campaign, due to the election cycle change, but here we are again. Once more, I seek a spot on the Court. I trust that I am a well-known quantity at this point. The thread is yours to ask your questions or make your comments. For your consideration, I once again offer the totality of my work related to the Court to date. I ask for your vote and continued confidence. Thanks!

Is it your belief that our Treason and Sedation laws do not apply to areas which have been deemed "nongovernmental" but are being using for IC purposes?



Why or why not?

No, though I would note that we have not had a law on sedition in years.

Clearly the Court can consider criminal cases involving sensitive evidence. It decided in On the Process for Declassifying Information for Use as Evidence in a Criminal Trial that there is a process for handling such evidence, which I imagine the government would likely seek to keep classified under the terms of FoIA. The law does not contemplate the concept of "nongovernmental" areas, but is simply concerned with whether any number of the criminal code's crimes has been violated and whether the Court's process for handling criminal trials is appropriately conducted. Jurisdiction and prosecutorial discretion go a long way here, and the law would be applicable, but the bottom line would be whether the relevant evidence would be deemed classified or if such classification would be dropped by order of the Court.

As far as the Court and the law is concerned, OOC matters cannot be considered anyway, so any matter at trial or under their consideration would be IC in nature. Finally, assuming that we are thinking of the same thing being referenced by your question, there is no supposition that the nongovernmental area in question was considered or supposed to be understood as an OOC area.

Do you believe that Justices proposing and pushing for new criminal laws while serving on the bench could be viewed as a conflict of interests?