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The Chief Justice is technically still an appointed judiciary official, but strangely has the invested powers of some of the Ardmori Crown and therefore is both technically a monarch as well as a judiciary official, the only one of its kind in Ixnay.  
The Chief Justice is technically still an appointed judiciary official, but strangely has the invested powers of some of the Ardmori Crown and therefore is both technically a monarch as well as a judiciary official, the only one of its kind in Ixnay.  
== Reform and Changes ==
== Reform and Changes ==
== Modern Challenges ==
== Modern Challenges ==
Modern challenges have arose from issues such as freedom of expression and unlawful surveillance. For the former this arose specifically in the late 2000s as part of the 2009 Arcer Economic Crisis, where trade unions and other socialist organizations demanded equal bargaining rights as private citizens for their institutions. The Supreme Court decided that the organizations did not constitute a person or have the same rights as a private Arcer citizen, and the challenges were struck down by both municipal courts, and their appeals rejected by the Supreme Court. Similarly, the Arcer government was challenged on the unlawful surveillance of these organizations in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the Acer Bush Wars. Members of the [[Office of Public Safety and National Security]] were alleged to have been involved with the surveillance and elicitation of intelligence from Arcer citizens that had liberal or socialist sympathizing values, or affiliated themselves with organizations such as [[Treaty of International Assistance and Development|TRIAD]]. A series of secret and closed-door political nd judiciary hearings with senior officials of the OPSNS as well as SUpreme Court judges ended with the determination that while in some cases the OPSNS had overstepped their mandate and violated the rights of Arcer citizens domestically, the alleged interference in the foreign activities of Arcetr citizens was not unconstitutional as they had affiliated or coerced with organizations deemed subversive by the Arcer government, but not necessarily watch listed as terrorist organizations. In this instance, the OPSNS was forced to offload much of their domestic surveillance activities onto the [[Royal Acer Constabulary]] as the domestic security apparatus of the state.