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Vote Against GA resolution Equal Justice Under Law
Resolution Analysis
Overview
This resolution seeks to replace GA #374 and provide a remedy to the currently thorny question of responsibility under the law for elected officials. To this end, the authors define the concept of "legislative immunity" and then outlaw the practice-noting that decision makers like lawmakers must be held accountable for "acts and decisions that have been made during the employ, tenure, appointment or existence of the aforementioned."
Recommendation
We are genuinely unimpressed and indeed even a bit disturbed by the mandates of this resolution for two main reasons. The first is purely logical, and we hope, grounded in the basis for the law. While the law as presently constructed does not address the question of legislative immunity in the purest form, that is that lawmakers cannot be prosecuted for a crime undertaken while they were in office even if said crime is committed outside of duties for the same, it leaves this thorny gray area to chance. It is thus rife for abuse. Secondly, sections 2 and 4(a) constitute a contradiction in terms. Because while section 2 explicitly rejects the idea of legislative immunity in the second sense of the term-protection against acts committed in the commission of an office-section 4(a) then curiously allows legislators to be shielded from the consequences of decision making. One might be left to wonder whether they learned the lessons of the resolution they just repealed.
For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote Against the General Assembly Resolution at vote, "Equal Justice Under Law".
