Lincoln v Lincoln Government

[S019]

Greetings justices, I am filing suit on behalf of residents of the region of Lincoln. I would like for the court to declare the LGC 3.3 - Dissolution of the Lincoln General Court as unconstitutional.


It is the view of me as the petitioner that this law violates the Bill of Rights of the Lincoln Constitution.

2. The General Court shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, nor of the press, nor the right to assemble and petition for the redress of grievances.

By preventing the legislature from meeting, the Lincoln government has indeed abridged upon the right of the people's representatives to assemble to redress their grievances. Additionally, due to the extreme nature of this legislation, I would like to request a stay in this law while the justices converse on its constitutionality.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Lincoln does not answer to the Atlasian Supreme Court and the Lincoln General Court no longer has any authority therein. Formal articles of secession from Atlasia will be filed in short order.

I move for this petition to be dismissed due to lack of standing.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Lincoln does not answer to the Atlasian Supreme Court and the Lincoln General Court no longer has any authority therein. Formal articles of secession from Atlasia will be filed in short order.

I move for this petition to be dismissed due to lack of standing.

The Federal Constitution establishes a procedure for regional secession. That procedure has not been completed. Therefore Lincoln is still legally part of Atlasia and answers to its Supreme Court.

Further your dissolution is invalid per my explanation in the other thread:

As the special presiding officer I do not recognize this as valid.

- The SOAP is clear that LGC 3.2, to remove and replace the Speaker, takes precedence over all other business. Thus it follows that the Court cannot do anything else until it takes action on LGC 3.2 .
- The SOAP is clear that you are not the presiding officer while you are being terminated. The Governor is required to designate another Deputy to preside, and has designated myself. Thus it follows that you have no power during this time, and can therefore not even post this thread. And this assumes you still even have the title of Speaker which is dubious given earlier actions.
- This was not posted in the introduction thread before getting a debate thread
- You've produced no evidence the Governor supports this and he has not posted anything. The Speaker does not play any role in executive orders under the Lincoln Constitution.
- There is no provision of the Lincoln Constitution that allows anyone or any body to dissolve the GC. The provision that previously contemplated such an action was removed when the Philadelphia Plan was repealed.

I further note the Federal AG's dismissal of your claims, and note that Lincoln remains a legal Part of Atlasia until a formal secession procedure is completed under the terms of the Atlasian Constitution.

Therefore I rule this motion/bill out of order and we will continue considering LGC 3.2.

For sake of time I invoke a point of order against the action I just took, and overrule said point of order. Let me know if you want an appeal vote of the GC. Otherwise I shall not devote any further attention to this irrelevant thread.

I thus ask the court to issue a simple statement saying the GC is still in power as your actions were invalid.