Alternatively, it may have been not legal to have Amerion last term - it's not exactly distant precedent

Perhaps what we need is clarification on whether junior Cabinet members are all firewalled, or only deputies. I've looked through the original separation of powers debate thread and there isn't much discussion of the deputies clause, really. IMO a deputy is closer to being an officer of the Coalition, and therefore being firewalled, because they innately have power delegated to them by another officer of the Coalition, while whole-Cabinet advisors and interns are not actually given any power.

If we're going to be individually picking interns from each ministry, that strays further to the line of deputy and we need to figure out a way to distinguish a deputy from an intern other than name.