This is not quite true, but indeed it is typically true that there is some ability for certain politicians to veto the appointment of judges, and in some countr

This is not quite true, but indeed it is typically true that there is some ability for certain politicians to veto the appointment of judges, and in some countries (esp. the US) this has led to politicisation of the whole process of appointments (which I do actually regard as a failure of the rule of law), so what I wrote was also not quite true. And of course in the US and Canada, the appointment to the Supreme Court is entirely political, although there are substantial checks on the executive. However, the context was talking about firing of judges. That is far more important. It is the difference between what is happening in the US (which leads to bad judicial activism, but not a complete breakdown of the rule of law) and Nazi Germany (apologies for violating Godwin's law, but since I live in Germany and my wife and kids are German, I feel I have the right to violate it once per year).