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There is nothing independent with Brazil’s court. They are just dismantling the executive powers so they and their own can be kept on power. In Brazil, the Sup
by sizeofchar 6y ago
There is nothing independent with Brazil’s court. They are just dismantling the executive powers so they and their own can be kept on power.
In Brazil, the Supreme Court is filled by presidential choice. Brazil had 25 consecutive years with social democratic and socialists presidents, so that every justice currently have been put there by them. Now that democracy turned to the right-wing, the losers aren’t accepting the results and the reforms being made, that takes out their privileges and positions of power.
I know barely nothing about India, but what you described certainly is not correlated to what is happening in Brazil.
- gavribirnbaum 6y agoTrue. You cannot expect the judicial to be apolitical if it is appointed by the other two highly political branches of government. But we pretend it is apolitical in Brazil and in the US.
- mc32 6y agoThere is a difference between political philosophy and being political. A judge may be liberal or conservative but it doesn’t follow that they would represent a party platform.
- thecreamedcorn 6y agoPart of the point of the current US vetting process is to ensure judges have the same beliefs as the current party platform. Even if you put the political philosophy of judges on some sort of pedestal (which you probably shouldn't) they don't get appointed unless they have the "correct" politics.