Undermining the Judiciary
Supreme Court के दस बरस: Modi के कार्यकाल में हमारे न्यायाधीश किस राह पर चले? The Wire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEM9cx1Qp5o
Apr 25, 2024 Saurav Dass
When Judges Turn Political: Lawyers Sibal, Arora, Bhushan and Dave Discuss a Malaise of Our Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctjmkKMD210 The Wire Mar 19, 2024
In this episode of Central Hall, Kapil Sibal discusses with a panel of leading independent-minded lawyers the problem of sitting judges developing political links. Recently, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay quit the Calcutta High Court and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. While on the bench too, his judgments, obiter and interviews generated controversy. How should the legal community respond in such cases? And is it ever possible to insulate the judiciary from politics? Listen in to Sibal’s conversation with Meenakshi Arora, Prashant Bhushan and Dushyant Dave.
Courts, a Last Line of Defense for Latin American Democracies
BY TAMARA TARACIUK BRONER AND REBECCA CHAVEZ | SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
In Latin America today, traditional coups are no longer the biggest threat to liberal democracy. More perilous are democratically elected leaders who, once in power, deliberately and gradually undermine basic guarantees, such as judicial autonomy, electoral integrity, independent press work and free expression.
In order for the judiciary to serve as a bulwark against democratic backsliding, transparent and merit-based appointment and removal processes along with tenure protection are critical. Courts must also have both financial and administrative independence. And when judges are under assault for protecting democracy, they benefit from international attention and support. for full text
Supreme Court Stays Promotion Of Judicial Officers As District Judges In Gujarat https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-sc-gujarat-government-promotion-district-judges-228547
Awstika Das 12 May 2023 "State govt issued notification during the pendency of plea and after this court issued notice...We stay the High Court recommendation and the government notification. The present stay order would be applicable to those promotes whose names do not figure within the first 68 candidates in the merit list, the bench clarified in the order...
Comment:The petition as such has got nothing to do with Rahul Gandhi, but the 68 includes the one who had disqualified him.
Supreme Court has Succumbed to Executive Control: Justice Shah | Karan Thapar https://youtu.be/66A1fFn1qec?t=106 Justice Shah refers to The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach J. Mark Ramseyer The Journal of Legal Studies https://www.jstor.org/stable/724464 Strong executives do tend t weaken the judiciary, whereas frequent elections and colaitions govt, tend to opt for stron judiciary mainly to ensure that they would not be harrassed later on.
In his article, From Lodha to Ramana: the Chief Justices of the Modi era https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/from-lodha-to-ramana-the-chief-justices-of-the-modi-era/article65909662.ece A.P. Shah SEPTEMBER 20, 2022 In the coming decades, the Supreme Court will continue to face challenges from multiple fronts, particularly the executive. It will also have newer responsibilities of strengthening the Indian judiciary, especially the lower courts, which seem to have faltered in recent times in many respects.