Children of One People

Proposed organic law — not enacted

Proposed Organic Judicial Institutions Law

Status: non-operative implementation proposal; not enacted. Original source: Article 10 Section 7; newly approved continuation decisions. Disposition: implementation questions classified separately; prior wording retained in the external package-level review-archive/prior-pass. Intended legal type: protected organic law. Relocation approved: yes, for implementation details. Substance: pending implementing choices; constitutional safeguards control.

Enactment, amendment, and repeal require a majority of the authorized membership of each caucus under Article 20. Vacancies, absences, abstentions, and disqualifications do not lower the threshold. The law remains subordinate, cannot diminish guarantees, silently amend the Constitution, or evade higher thresholds, and is subject to Constitutional Court review when challenged. This proposal is not enacted by its constitutional designation.

Delegated questions: Commission size; public-member selection, selection/recusal safeguards for overlapping professional affiliations; component procedures and decision fractions; shortlist and recurring-vote intervals; fixed finite maximum acting service; and composition/procedures of the independent removal-finding body. Preserve equal components and no-profession-majority, neutral temporary selection, no repeated acting service for one vacancy, and unchanged confirmation thresholds. No numerical implementation values are selected. First constitutional appointments remain subject to the Ratification Protocol.

Justice-system interaction constraints

Whole-system review ../reviews/V01-03-justice-system-interaction.md identified three matters this proposed organic law may not decide by implication:

Until those questions are resolved, this organic-law proposal may develop only neutral implementation around already settled appointment, recusal, temporary-service, and removal safeguards.

Integrated magistrate-continuation boundary

Article 10 now fixes the constitutional core for end-of-term investigative-magistrate continuation: twelve-year nonrenewable terms, continuation only on an already assigned investigation or matter where necessary for justice, a maximum two-year continuation, no new assignments, and a neutral approval process insulated from judicial or political selection/direction. This organic law may define the neutral procedure, documentation, recusal, timing, and internal administration, but may not expand those constitutional limits.

The complete Investigative Magistracy record remains nonbinding on the Judiciary and subject to Article 2 fair-process and evidence-challenge rights; implementing procedure may not convert Magistracy findings into conclusive adjudicative facts.

Constitutional Chamber jurisdiction boundary

The phrase “cross-communal disputes” remains constitutionally unresolved and is now subject to ../rfc/RFC-014-constitutional-chamber-cross-community-jurisdiction.md. This organic law may define transfer, certification, filing, consolidation, and other neutral jurisdictional procedure only after the constitutional subject-matter boundary is settled; it may not create identity-based or communal jurisdiction by implication.

First-day transition justice boundary

The permanent Article 10 institutions are not guaranteed operational on the first day of Stage One, while constitutional rights and Transition Oversight Council review obligations apply immediately. Interim constitutional adjudication, evidence preservation, temporary investigative capacity, and the transfer of pending matters to permanent institutions remain founding-authority questions under ../rfc/RFC-009-founding-ratification-protocol-first-constitutional-authority.md and ../reviews/V01-05-transition-handoff-first-institutions.md.

This organic law may implement permanent judicial institutions once lawful appointment authority exists. It may not retroactively create the authority of a first-day tribunal or temporary investigative body, nor allow a temporary body to survive as a parallel institution after its constitutional successor becomes operational.