I assumed that being a legislator is a job that involves legislating. Legislators are part of our legislature. And so if we were to say…
…that does actually suggest being a legislator should be exclusive with serving in the executive or judiciary. Separation of powers sounds great in the real world, but clearly doesn’t translate perfectly to our community. (Unless anybody is actually advocating that none of our ministers or justices should be legislators?)
Instead, we have a flexible set of justices and provisions for recusal so that justices who are in the Cabinet won’t hear a case about the extent of the Cabinet’s authority or justices who are in the Office of the Chair won’t hear a case about what the law requires the Chair to do. I don’t mind strengthening our recusal provisions, but in the absence of anything more specific than general Montesquieu-esque concerns, it’s really easy to wax poetic about problems that sound terrible but haven’t actually presented themselves in our community.