alt Hacker NewsThis seems dysfunctional and a API for institutional subversion. If you can subvert the machinery that creates judges, you can basically take over a democracy without having any way to fix that except for institutional repair and waiting out the working lifespan of judges (which can be 1.5 generations)
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radiator • yesterday at 9:51 AM
What do you mean "if you can"? It has already happened in several democratic countries.
matheusmoreira • yesterday at 7:55 PM
This is exactly what happened in my country and several others.
That is correct. It's why the Republican party went so hard to prevent any non-Republican judges from joining the supreme court over the last 1.5 generations.