While I intend to reconfirm for all Arbiters, I do need to ask a question that any Arbiter could answer: could someone elaborate a) why it is taking the Conclave so long to answer Judicial Reviews and b) are there any plans to rectify the situation?
A question specifically for the Viceroy: where are the weekly public updates on Judicial Reviews mandated by the SOC, and do you have any plans to fix the lack of updates (i.e. start posting them or remove the requirement from the SOC (and replace it with what))? See here:
For both questions, see:
- What counts as a vote? - Began 11/16/2025, now it is 1/2/2025. No updates from the Viceroy.
- Constitutionality of the Conclave Orders Act - Began 5/2025, ended 11/2025. Another public thread was made but no weekly updates.
- WTF is a civil trial - Started 9/3/2025 ended 11/12/2025 - which is decent, but note the lack of Viceroy updates + this was pushed for by interested parties 2x on Discord iirc.
- Automatic Loss of Citizenship - Apparently this JR was never even looked at?
It is clear the Conclave has been dropping the ball regarding getting JRs in a timely manner and the Viceroy(s) have been failing to post weekly updates as required by the SOC.
This does not make any of y’all bad Arbiters, but what I would like to see as a Magister voting for your reconfirmation is how does the Conclave plan to fix these issues. The primary use-case of JRs is to effectively seek Conclave interpretation of law to avoid having to re-write law if possible, but the current reality is that one can pass an uncontroversial concordat amendment in a flat 4wks (2wk drafting, 2wk voting) and it would be faster anywhere from 2 to 7x faster than a JR - making a JR effectively useless for most cases it is used for. Not to mention that in any given year JRs tend to be a majority of the Conclave’s workload (though I understand we had the jo trial this year which could’ve shaken some stuff up - which doesn’t excuse the lack of weekly updates tho)