(01-01-2017, 11:09 PM)Roavin Wrote: The "hole in law" part is applicable, since while the bill had been passed it was (and still isn't) in the normative copy since gameside approval is still missing.

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The Elections Act was passed during the Great Council, when that requirement wasn't needed. The EC section of the law hasn't changed. There's no ambiguity at all with who's restricted from sitting on the EC. So the Cabinet can't just ignore that and say there's a "pressing need." The executive order authority was heavily reined in to avoid just that.

Tsu being on the EC isn't a big deal to me, but he won't always be Delegate. And future Cabinets might use this as precedent for more disagreeable EOs.

The Cabinet doesn't get to ignore the law just because it's inconvenient. The scramble for finding ECs happened in the first place because people keep ignoring the permanent status of the EC. We aren't supposed to be finding new ECs every election, but apparently nobody's taking into account the permanence of the appointment when making it.

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