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Every morally corrupt politician soon or later attempts to curb the judicial system powers before they get him red handed; it has been already either attempted

Every morally corrupt politician soon or later attempts to curb the judicial system powers before they get him red handed; it has been already either attempted or done by Putin, Lukashenko, Orban, Erdogan, Al Sisi, Modi, and in some cases attempted but backfired (Bolsonaro). Happens in every part of the world, and I voluntarily omitted some of them to not incite flames. The worst of the worst invariably get to a point in which they're forced to neuter their own judicial system in order to continue their path towards what in some cases can be euphemistically called a "democratorship", that is, a dictatorship disguised as democracy. Netanyahu makes no difference here; he's just like many others who would never let a serious crisis go to waste and for sure he is now the #1 to benefit politically from Oct 7 Hamas attacks. Oh and since every critics to Israel must be immediately painted as antisemite, I'll close this with Hamas is a bunch of terrorist bastards who must cease to exist asap. Carpet bombing civilians is not the way, though.

Georgelemental 3y ago
I don't like Netanyahu either (a cursory glance at my comment history wil bear that out), but that doesn't mean that judges can't abuse their power too. In this case, the supreme court appears to believe they have the right to overrule any government decision they feel is "unreasonable", which seems like an extremely vague standard for unelected officials to apply to the people's elected representatives.
rufus_foreman 3y ago
>> Every morally corrupt politician soon or later... What do morally corrupt judges do?
- squarefoot 3y ago
  You don't limit powers of doctors to prescribe medicines just because you found an incompetent or corrupt one; you fire that one. Governments in truly free countries must not act above their own justice, just like judges can't when picked one by one; if a corrupt judge or a corrupt politician are caught they must be fired and prosecuted the same way. Corrupt politicians work against that, and they often pass laws that limit the judicial power as a whole, which would make no difference when dealing with a corrupt judge, but would help them to avoid prosecution. Invariably, all attempts at justifying those attempts to limit judges powers are from people who either fell for propaganda or is spreading it on purpose.

Georgelemental 3y ago

I don't like Netanyahu either (a cursory glance at my comment history wil bear that out), but that doesn't mean that judges can't abuse their power too. In this case, the supreme court appears to believe they have the right to overrule any government decision they feel is "unreasonable", which seems like an extremely vague standard for unelected officials to apply to the people's elected representatives.

rufus_foreman 3y ago

>> Every morally corrupt politician soon or later... What do morally corrupt judges do?

squarefoot 3y ago
You don't limit powers of doctors to prescribe medicines just because you found an incompetent or corrupt one; you fire that one. Governments in truly free countries must not act above their own justice, just like judges can't when picked one by one; if a corrupt judge or a corrupt politician are caught they must be fired and prosecuted the same way. Corrupt politicians work against that, and they often pass laws that limit the judicial power as a whole, which would make no difference when dealing with a corrupt judge, but would help them to avoid prosecution. Invariably, all attempts at justifying those attempts to limit judges powers are from people who either fell for propaganda or is spreading it on purpose.