Fabian Martinez, CCD executive and cadidate for Director of the CCD, has been arrested for attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, corporate espionage, and evading arrest. Martinez is alleged to have paid ex-convict Stephan Brookbank to inject fellow CCD executive Lewis Buck with a lethal dose of insulin. Buck remains in a coma and his condition appears unchanging, though the charges face change to murder in the first degree if Buck should die.
Due to the extreme growth of the CCD, and it's scope beyond the USC, including some corporations from other nations, and a good deal of investment by USC allies (especially in CARICOM), we are turning Martinez over to the Caribbean Court of Justice to face trial with CARICOM supervision. The 17 other executives involved in the plot are being charged within the USC, and face much smaller charges, most simply face acessory after the fact due to their knowledge of and failure to report the detwils of the assasination attempt. Several face evading arrest. Only Martinez will be turned over to the regional court, as we do not see it necessary to complicate the other trials, but we are open to turning them over as well if desired by our allies.
The court requires only 7 judges, and so will continue despite the necessity to confirm and continue recent appointments to the court. The new judges will be sworn in soon, but will not take part in the trial most likely.
We hope our CARICOM allies can help us come up with a solution and fair result for this trial. It remains to be seen who is leading the CCD in the aftermath of the scandal.
Since 2018, 3 of the 7 judges of the CARICOM overseen Caribbean Court of Justice have retired or unfortunately passes away. CARICOM is appointing an additional 5 instead of 3 judges, expanding the court to 9 rather than 7. This expansion has precident from the establishment of the court, and has come about as a result of expanded membership that has accompanied the acceptance of Spanish as an official CARICOM language.
New Judges
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Kerly Salazar (86) - Gran Columbia - Liberal ideology with a focus on human rights, especially homosexual rights and drug legalization.
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León Gonzalez (59)- Dominican Republic - Conservative ideology, little else known about this comparatively young judge.
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Marica Rosario (67) - Dominican Republic- Liberal ideology with a focus on corporate law, with a desire to break up monopolies.
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Gabriella Singh (64) - Trinidad and Tobago, USC - Liberal ideology with a focus on labor rights.
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Whitney Tjon (60) - Suriname - Liberal ideology, with a focus on environmental law. Hopes to end deforestation in the Guiana Shield in South America.
Existing Judges
(M) These are real people most of whom has short or non existent wikipedia articles so they will not be very fleshed out. As they get phased out we can add more detail to new judges.
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Adrian Saunders (74) - St Vincent and the Grenadines
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Jacob Wit (76) - Netherlands Antilles
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Winston Charles Anderson (m) age unknown (m)- Jamaica, USC
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Maureen Rajnauth-Lee (m) age unknown (m) - Trinidad and Tobago, USC
(M) In the next few years CARICOM will be filtering out the old judges for new ones so if you are a CARICOM member, you will have another chance to make appointments for judges from your country.
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Recently, the Grinnell-Selzer poll found that just 30 percent of Americans believe the justices' decisions are based on the Constitution and the law. 62 percent of respondents said the Court's decisions were based on the "political views of members" and eight percent said they weren't sure. The poll was conducted among 915 U.S. adults from October 13 to 17, and had a margin of error of 3.5 percent.
The U.S. Supreme Court's credibility or impartiality is at stake. In the past, the Supreme Court has been unable to enforce its rulings in some cases. For example, many public schools held classroom prayers long after the Court had banned government-sponsored religious activities.
Although the division between the left and the right leaning justices with respect to constitutional interpretation has long existed it has become more stark recently. Some of the disagreement centers around what the Constitution means in the current times rather than what meant as originally written.
Do the justices need to exercise moderation in their interpretation of the Constitution to gain some credibility back?
