WHEREAS a whole lot of to-do was to-done in the last Cosa to clear the judicial benches of nappers and fill it with others, andWHEREAS now those others have just as much nothing to do as their predecessors had, and are just as busy doing absolutely none of it, andWHEREAS without meaning to say "I told you so", but
WHEREAS I did, and
WHEREAS all of this re-benching has given us three Justices and two Magistrates, all called "active", but all content to twiddle their thumbs given the dearth of legal business that we enjoy and will continue to enjoy for any future I can foresee, and
WHEREAS somehow it was missed that, according to Article XVI Section 2 of the Organic Law, the Court of Magistrates must have an odd number of judges, and
WHEREAS it also must have "not less than two and no more than three" of them, and
WHEREAS unless my math is off, that means it must have three (3), and
WHEREAS like I say, it only has two (2), and
WHEREAS unless my math is off, that means we need to nominate one (1) more Magistrate to join Owen and Mag to say he's sitting with them helping them do their whole lot of nothing, and
WHEREAS we have four attorneys that I know of who are citizens and are not on the bench, so we should be able to find one to do this, andWHEREAS one of them is Béneditsch Ardpresteir, andWHEREAS he volunteered, andWHEREAS that's good enough for me, nowTHEREFORE the Ziu hereby nominates Béneditsch Ardpresteir to the Court of Magistrates, a position in which I am extremely confident that he will have precious little if anything to do.
Noi urent q'estadra så,
Ma la Mha, Contă Thord (MC-RUMP)
Dien Tresplet (MC-RUMP)