Fix the Justice System You Kinda Broke Act (Passed)

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I support this bill. The President should have control over the structure of the cabinet: if he thinks combining the Justice and Home Affairs Dept's is the best thing to do, I'm all for it.

As for the name, I propose (in true John Adams fashion) that we select a long and pompous-sounding title: something like "Lord High Prosecutor of the Realm and First Executor of the Same." "Secretary of the Interior" would be fine, too.

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Since I'm new to the Senate, I'm going to need a little background information on both offices and what they do. I'd check the wiki, but I get the feeling that it hasn't been updated for a while.

Back in September, following the mass-resignation of most of the Bore Administration and the realization that there are simply too many offices in Atlasia, the Senate voted to combine the Department of Internal Affairs and the Department of Justice into the new, consolidated "Department of Home Affairs." This new agency was essentially a conglomeration of the real-life Departments of Jusice, Interior, Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health & Human Services, Transportation, Energy, and Education. This bill would revert to the pre-September status quo, wherein there is a "Secretary of the Interior" responsible for the last nine of those departments and an Attorney General who leads the Department of Justice.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Since I'm new to the Senate, I'm going to need a little background information on both offices and what they do. I'd check the wiki, but I get the feeling that it hasn't been updated for a while.

Back in September, following the mass-resignation of most of the Bore Administration and the realization that there are simply too many offices in Atlasia, the Senate voted to combine the Department of Internal Affairs and the Department of Justice into the new, consolidated "Department of Home Affairs." This new agency was essentially a conglomeration of the real-life Departments of Jusice, Interior, Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health & Human Services, Transportation, Energy, and Education. This bill would revert to the pre-September status quo, wherein there is a "Secretary of the Interior" responsible for the last nine of those departments and an Attorney General who leads the Department of Justice.

Actually, that is not quite what the current text says, as I pointed out in my previous post.

It did combine it together yes, but it also created the SG to handle court cases on an "as needed basis".

This would basically make the SoHA the defactor AG as well as SoIA under the old system if my understanding is correct. The text is misleading because it says "recombine", yet those two were never combined before hence the confusion.

My apologies - you're right, of course, that the SoHA and the AG were never one office.

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Sorry, again not a senator

I can only speak for myself, but I personally love citizen participation in these threads. The more activity, the better!

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I offer the following amendment:

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I motion for a final vote.

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So I'm just trying to make sure everything is clear here: in effect, the old positions of SoIA & AG are now vested entirely in the position of Secretary/Department of the Interior?

Yes.

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AYE!