That there are issues don't matter. That's a failing of the admins and the CRS. The Cabinet can't just decide the law is inconvenient and then issue an executive order violating it. That's the concern here.

People on the EC aren't supposed to have ambitions for elected office. That was the whole point, because accusations of bias and corruption were flung about every damn time there was any minor issue. So it appears we've been making bad choices for EC, not that the permanent status of EC appointments are a problem.

It's also an issue that the Permanent Justice is supposed to actually be around for elections, or appoint someone in their stead. Neither of which has happened, afaik.

We can discuss changing the EC to downsize it. (I suggested in the CRS discord channel going down to one EC, with an audit every election.) But that still doesn't make it okay to just ignore the law as it is.

Like I said before, it's a moot point now. But we should be clear that it wasn't legal at the time, so future Cabinets don't try to use this as precedent for worse decisions.