Supreme Court of Cascadia: Difference between revisions

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|chiefjudgetitle=Chief Justice of Cascadia

|termstart1=August 21, 2023

|associatejudgetitle=Senior Associate Justice

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The court was first established by Cascadia's [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gYBPWtHFGn-duQFY6E2j87bQLQThv31qYxiNkfSLyyk/edit?usp=sharing first constitution] as the "State Court of Cascadia", which was both headed by and  purely consisted of a directly-elected Chief Judge, the sole judge of the court, serving for a renewable two-month term. Two elections for Chief Judge were held under this system, before the constitution was amended to establish a Supreme Court with 3 judges appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the [[Legislature of Cascadia|House]], and with the continued support of three-fifths of the population in monthly retention referendums. This system has remained in place following the ratification of the [[National Constitution of Cascadia (Aurora)|National Constitution]], in which the Supreme Court is described in Article 5. The court consists of three justices: the chief justice of the Cascadia and two associate justices. Justices have lifetime tenure, meaning they remain on the court until they die, retire, resign, fail to meet three-fifths in a retention referendum, or are impeached and removed from office. When a vacancy occurs, the president, with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives, appoints a new justice. Each justice has a single vote in deciding the cases argued before the court. When in the majority, the chief justice decides who writes the opinion of the court; otherwise, the most senior justice in the majority assigns the task of writing the opinion.

The court meets in the Hall of Justice in [[Olympia]]. The current justices of the Supreme Court are SayerQT (Chief since August 24, 2023), xBest_Name_Everx (since October 23, 2023), and Yapannn (since December 26, 2023).

==Notable rulings==

! colspan="2" | Justice / Residence

!Appointed by  

!HCV

!Succeeded

|[[File:SayerQT-Forward.png|60px]]

'''SayerQT'''<br>Olympia, Cascadia

|EmpressCorgo

|10–0

|89.5%

|August 21, 2023

|moggs

|'''xBest_Name_Everx'''<br>Phoenix, Cascadia

| EmpressCorgo

|86.8%

|Furballen

|[[File:Yapannn.png|60px]]

|'''Yapannn'''<br>Eureka, Cascadia

|Setrus

|11–0

|N/A

|December 26, 2023

|Bachinuni

|}The constitutional office of '''Justice-in-Training''' is currently vacant. The most recent occupant of the post was Bachinuni, who became a full justice on October 23, 2023, and resigned his seat on November 19, 2023 to be elected to the House of Representatives.

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|[[June 2023 Cascadia general election|Elected]] [[President of Cascadia|president]].

 

|August 24, 2023<br>''(10-0)''

|}

! Date confirmed (House vote)

! Tenure length

!Reason for End

|47 days

|25 days

|Failed [[February 2023 Cascadia general election|retention]].

|Phoenix

| February 26, 2023<br>–<br>March 2, 2023

|4 days

|Elected to [[Legislature of Cascadia|House]] in special election.

|52 days

|Appointed Chief Justice.

| colspan="8" |Seat vacant for 21 days following conflict between President WrestlingWithGod and the Legislature over judicial nominations.  

|8 days

|Appointed Chief Justice.  

|[[File:Furballen.png|75px]]  

|63 days

|Failed [[October 2023 Cascadia general election|retention]].

|Phoenix

|October 23, 2023<br>–<br>Incumbent

|68 days

|'''''Incumbent'''''

! Date confirmed (House vote)

!Reason for End

| Salem  

|57 days

|Retired.

|29 days

|Appointed Chief Justice.

|112 days

|Retired.

|[[File:SayerQT-Forward.png|75px]]

|[[SayerQT]]

|64 days

|Appointed Chief Justice.

|60 days

|Failed [[October 2023 Cascadia general election|retention]].

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|28 days

|

|December 26, 2023<br>–<br>Incumbent

|'''''Incumbent'''''

|Setrus