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    "id": 1478057,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, while the issue that has been raised by Senate Majority Leader is of weighty concern, under the law, there is what we call, fair comment. It is judicial notice that your counterpart in the National Assembly and his deputy have taken a position on the matter that is active before them. Therefore, as you consider your ruling, you should also be able to guide us because the umpire of the arbiter-neutral House, who should be neutral, have already taken a position on that matter. Mr. Speaker, Sir, even as you rule on it, there is also the principle of access to information, fair comment, and freedom of media. Some things are also judicially notice that, going by the decision in your Solomonic ruling, should not appear in any way to gag Members from giving fair comment. This is because we have seen people who are senior in Parliament taking certain positions. This might be presumptuous of their thinking and the position they hold can affect the outcome and decision that is actively in the matter. While that needs to be guided and the decision has been made in the courts of law, I think the proper reading of the ruling of the Supreme Court was not in any way to gag Members, but of course, to try and avoid the principle of sub judice as well as in the principle of res judicata in matters that have already been estopped by a court of law and Parliament."
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