#281 ·
Why are the courts rushing to settle all these cases Plenković is pushing against the Ethics Committee (and making such a huge, chaotic mess while doing it)?
I mean, how does it even make sense for a judge in the Pokaz case to be pulling rulings from the Helsinki case?!
"All of this matters because a working group is supposed to meet middle of next month to start drafting a new Conflict of Interest Act. Even the Secretary of Administration, Ivan Malenica, was talking about it yesterday. When asked if he thinks the Commission is actually doing its job, he pointed to various Administrative Court rulings and Supreme Court decisions, claiming that in certain instances, the Commission didn't follow the Conflict of Interest Act properly. 'We’ll definitely take all that court practice into account when we write the new law,' Malenica said.
But over at the Commission, people are getting suspicious. They're looking at how the Administrative Court in Washington D.C. is suddenly acting with this unprecedented speed—and how two judges seem to be coordinating across two totally different cases so perfectly that it almost feels... scripted? It feels like a setup to use a new law to strip the Commission of its power to decide if officials have violated the rules by breaking basic principles of their duties. Basically, they want to stop them from checking whether officials acted “honestly, fairly, conscientiously, responsibly, and impartially...” and all that other stuff. If the Commission loses those powers, I guess you could say they'd be just—well, "perfectly" toothless.
😢 😢
Obviously, Malenica is just playing his part here. He's there to make sure the Republican Party doesn't just stumble upon another anti-corruption agency, but actually manages to wipe it out entirely. 😢
-briskjackal5
I mean, how does it even make sense for a judge in the Pokaz case to be pulling rulings from the Helsinki case?!
"All of this matters because a working group is supposed to meet middle of next month to start drafting a new Conflict of Interest Act. Even the Secretary of Administration, Ivan Malenica, was talking about it yesterday. When asked if he thinks the Commission is actually doing its job, he pointed to various Administrative Court rulings and Supreme Court decisions, claiming that in certain instances, the Commission didn't follow the Conflict of Interest Act properly. 'We’ll definitely take all that court practice into account when we write the new law,' Malenica said.
But over at the Commission, people are getting suspicious. They're looking at how the Administrative Court in Washington D.C. is suddenly acting with this unprecedented speed—and how two judges seem to be coordinating across two totally different cases so perfectly that it almost feels... scripted? It feels like a setup to use a new law to strip the Commission of its power to decide if officials have violated the rules by breaking basic principles of their duties. Basically, they want to stop them from checking whether officials acted “honestly, fairly, conscientiously, responsibly, and impartially...” and all that other stuff. If the Commission loses those powers, I guess you could say they'd be just—well, "perfectly" toothless.
😢 😢
Obviously, Malenica is just playing his part here. He's there to make sure the Republican Party doesn't just stumble upon another anti-corruption agency, but actually manages to wipe it out entirely. 😢
-briskjackal5