Confirmation of Bacon King as Justice (Debating)

[Barnes]

I will leave Senator Yankee with that line of inquisition and ask something slightly different.

Mr. Bacon "the King" Man, how would you currently characterize the relevance of the Supreme Court and judicial institutions at-large, and what judicial reforms, if any, would you support at the present Constitutional Convention?

[Barnes]

Well, at least it's good to see you're feeling better .

Hear, hear!

Outside of anything in this game, I am genuinely glad that you are in a better place now, BK. And while you might have felt it necessary, no one on this website shold have to defend their personal life in front of others on the Internet.

[Barnes]

I must ask that the Speaker restore some order in the Senate!

Non-senators are fully entitled to take their comments to the appropriate threads, but I don't think it reflects well on us to have a free-for-all in this thread.  The same goes for all members of this body who are at present snipping at one another.

[Barnes]

This debate has become truly absurd.  Bacon King is an eminently qualified person for this position, and at a time when we are desperate for active officeholders, it would be exceedingly foolish of the Senate to reject such a nomination.

Now, if the President-elect chooses to act on this nomination, that is his prerogative.  However, until he does such a thing, and indeed if he does such a thing, I will have no reservations at all for voting to confirm the nominee.

[Barnes]

What a truly ignominious spectacle this has been!

The Senate has seen fit to prevent one of the most qualified legal minds in the history of Atlasia from taking a seat on the Supreme Court at a time of record inactivity and inability to fill government positions.  Now, the President has stated that he is in no hurry to fill this seat, and so the Senate, by its actions here today, has neutered the highest court in the land and destroyed the career of one of our most respected statesmen.