Bill: Draft Subversion of Appeals Act

[Darklander]

A
BILL
to

Amend the Judicial Standards Act.​

The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

1 - Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the ‘Subversion of Appeals Act’.

(2) This Act will be enacted immediately upon its signing into law.

(3) This Act has been authored by the citizens of the WPR Legislation Committee.

(4) This Act has been sponsored by Rep. TrueDarklander.

(5) This Act has been co-sponsored by Rep. Smami.

2 - Reasons

(1) At present, no law clearly prohibits individuals from initiating litigation against the Commonwealth of Redmont or its judicial officers for the purpose of challenging, circumventing, or overturning a judicial ruling.

(2) Such filings risk undermining the established appellate process and may result in inconsistent or harmful precedent.

(3) The law must therefore expressly define the limits of permissible challenges to judicial rulings and affirm the authority of the appeals process.

(4) Various sections of the Judicial Standards Act (JSA) are redundant under the Constitution and should be removed from the JSA.

3 - Amendments to the Judicial Standards Act

(1) The Judicial Standards Act shall be amended as follows:
(a) Sections 4 through 12 shall be struck in their entirety.
(b) § 20, now renumbered § 11, shall be amended to read as follows:
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(1) Once a court case is adjourned, either party may request to appeal the decision by filing an appeal in the court of the next tier. Once a case has been decided by the Supreme Court, it cannot be appealed.
(2) Requirements:--
- Less than one month has elapsed since the court’s decision;
- the appeal follows a format laid out by the courts in a thread that will be authored upon this bill’s passage; and
- the appeal is not made just for the sake of appealing.
(2) No party may bring litigation against the Commonwealth of Redmont, its agencies, or its judicial officers for the sole purpose of overturning, modifying, or otherwise challenging a judicial ruling outside of the lawful appeals process.
(3) Any such filing whose claim is in contradiction with § 11(2) shall be considered outside the jurisdiction of the trial court.
(4) A valid appeal must:—
(a) be filed within one month of the original decision;
(b) conform to the formatting required for appeals set out by the courts; and
(c) present lawful grounds for review.

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(c) The following shall be appended to the Act:
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(23) Judicial Immunity
(1) Judicial officers acting within the scope of their official judicial duties shall be granted legal immunity from civil litigation arising from actions taken in the performance of those duties.
(2) This immunity shall not apply in circumstances involving impeachment proceedings duly initiated and conducted according to constitutional and statutory requirements.

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