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According to ABC News, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in dissent that “Congress has strong reasons for insisting on the voluntary nature of the E-Verify program,” whose database of “tens of millions of Social Security and immigration records kept by the Federal Government” is “prone to error.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting really tired of hearing the $3.6 trillion federal government, which has over 2 million employees, whine about its inability to perform simple data processing tasks.
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The Bangladesh Government is mulling over not bringing in any amendment proposal on the caretaker government system as it wants to drop the provision from the country's constitution. In this regard, the first portion of the judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will be placed as an argument. But the government will consider keeping the provision of the caretaker government system for one or two terms, if the opposition party reaches an agreement with the ruling party on other issues of the constitution amendments. This information has been received from very high-level of the government. Meanwhile, concerned experts believe that the country has every possibility of entering a phase of political anarchy, if the caretaker government system is cancelled. It is sure that creation of such unrest in the country that will provoke the extraconstitutional forces to assume sate power. A two-year Army-supported unusual government assumed power in 2007 because of a hell bent attitude of the ruling party at that time and earlier occasions. That Army-supported government took unprecedented measures to suppress the country's political forces. The policymakers of the government believe that there is no scope to maintain the caretaker government system in the country without brining an amendment to the constitution as the 13th Amendment has been scrapped in a recent verdict of majority judges of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court under the leadership of the just retired Chief Justice A.B.M. Khairul Hauqe. The court has opined for holding the next two general elections under the caretaker government, but the observation is not a part of the order. There is no obstruction to abolishing the caretaker government system from the constitution as the review verdict of the Supreme Court has made the 13th Amendment null and void. With this in view, the special parliamentary committee on constitutional amendment has already begun dialog on the matter. Most members of the committee have opined for abolishing the system. The government policymakers at this moment want cooperation from the opposition party in abolishing the caretaker government system from the constitution. In the primary discussions most of the special committee members expressed the view that the government should abolish this provision from the constitution if the opposition party does not agree to accept the next caretaker government chief as per the desire of the ruling party. In this regard, their main argument will be that they have only complied to the court order. The government will bring separate constitution amendment bills in the House on the issues relating to amendments, including the Fifth, Seventh, and 13th Amendments, cancelled by the higher court. The government is also considering changing the Election Commission rules and the Representation of People Order 1974 for holing elections in a neutral manner. There will be no need of caretaker government if election commission is strengthened. The government will bank on this argument. If necessary, the ruling party will start campaign on the issue ahead of elections. In this context, Law Minister Barrister Shafiq Ahmed said that there would be no need for the caretaker government if the Election Commission was made stronger and independent. The law minister said: 'Our neighboring country does not have caretaker government. The Election Commission can hold free and fair elections maintaining independence of the organization. The Election Commission had made instances in holding the last upazila and municipality elections in a free and fair manner. Democracy will get an institutional shape if the Election Commission plays an impartial and stronger role.' According to the law minister, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has cancelled the 13th Amendment of the constitution after reviewing the matter in the light of the constitution to uphold the charter. The court might have though that it would have been better if the country is run by people's representatives. Running the state by unelected people is contradictory to the constitution. He said the Appellate Division has also ruled that the 10th and 11th parliament elections could be held under the caretaker government. It also observed that the former chief justice and retired judges of the Supreme Court should not the chief adviser of the caretaker government. The court in the judgment said parliament would decide on these observations with prudently and independently.

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