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    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank Sen. James Orengo, one of the solid minds that we have in this country for giving me that information. Having dispensed with the stature and position of the Executive and the Judiciary in a constitutional democracy that leads me to conclude that the superior and the unimpeded arm of Government that can claim that it is entirely drawing from the mandate of the people is the Senate and the National Assembly of Kenya. For that reason, let us not make mistakes and imagine, for example, that a member of the Executive or a member of the Judiciary can sit down in a room and make a decision that arrests this process made by Parliament of Kenya. I say this with a lot of respect for judges and the Judiciary, what courts can do for clarity is to wait until a decision has been made and tell us how it was arrived at. Was it in accordance with the law? They can make that declaration. In fact, they can even quash something that has been legislated on. They cannot force Parliament to pass a law or to make a legislative action which according to them is the proper one. So, the court can say this Bill or this Act is unconstitutional, but the court cannot force Parliament to pass another Act which according to them is unconstitutional. Parliament can ignore. They can say that they have noted that, but they---"
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