I'm ready for my massive helping of humble pie.
Okay, here's what happened - in the last thread on this Marokai introduced an amendment to allow for impeachment
sans public vote if the Senate voted unanimously to impeach. Seeing the broad support for this but not wanting to make it so restrictive, I worked up a compromise on a similar principle - instead of a unanimous vote I'd lower the threshold to eight tenths of the Senate.
Here's the problem - I wrote my amendment early when groggy and bleary-eyed, and thus made a critical, embarrassing mistake that unfortunately only came to light in the most public way - since my idea was based on Marokai's proposal, I'd used his text, but overlooked removing his prior language in clause one.
As such, the
TNTA still allowed for the unanimous vote, meaning that in its iteration after the passage of my compromise amendment, it allowed for impeachment without a public poll only in the case of a unanimous vote... unless there was also an 80% vote. It made no sense. To my discredit, I did not notice this until it was too late.
Unless I've made some other horrible error - and let's face it, that's far from impossible - this edited emergency text remedies that - removing the language about unanimous votes and making it clear that an 80% vote of the Senate for impeachment will allow for removal without a public poll.
My hope is that we can simply bring this to a final vote since - I'm assuming - most Senators voted for the final text on the understanding that the 80% threshold had been established, not noticing the redundant, but bill-crippling unanimity clause.
I wholeheartedly apologise for this. I promise to stop posting when I'm tired and have caffeine jitters.
PS: This is my least favourite pie.
