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    "content": "is on holiday or is attending some meetings in Lithuania with one member of the Supreme Court. But I am asking myself, at such a critical moment after rendering such a serious decision, the Judiciary should have demonstrated leadership by being available where they ought to be, even if it is not a matter of law, but as a matter of tradition. For the first time when the history of this country will be written, it will be noted – I like the way media houses noted the same last night and even today – that there was a period in time that we had an emotional Judiciary or a Judiciary led by an emotional person and they made a decision that they are not coming here. I do not want to discuss the conduct of the Chief Justice as a person; I just want to leave it to the point of an institution of the Judiciary. I would not have a problem if they had sent clerks, staff or the Registrar of the Judiciary. We should have had a representation of an important arm of Government called the Judiciary in such an important function that we had yesterday. Mr. Speaker, Sir, some will say that we have criticized the Judiciary so vehemently that perhaps it made it impossible for them to come here. There is no one who gets criticized more than us, elected leaders. Every Senator who sits here has gone through the worst times of various kinds of accusations. Names of many Senators here are found in the gutter press with all manner of allegations."
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