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Anne-Marie Le Pourhiet: “From Louis XIII to the Constitutional Council, the persistent mistrust of the French vis-à-vis the power of judges”

2024-02-05T19:22:07.973Z

Highlights: The criticisms to which the Constitutional Council was subjected reactivate an age-old fear of seeing judges overstep their prerogatives. The hypocritical denial of excess jurisdictional power exasperates citizens who, even if they do not master the mysteries of our legal system, see with their own eyes that the representatives they elect are reduced to impotence by lying arguments. Their sole aim is to gag democracy, refuse the verdict of the ballot boxes and precisely call into question the balance of powers desired by...


TRIBUNE - The criticisms to which the Constitutional Council was subjected after having censored part of the immigration law reactivate an age-old fear of seeing judges overstep their prerogatives, recalls the professor emeritus of public law.


The decision of the Constitutional Council of January 25 on the immigration law, like those of the European Court of Human Rights and the Council of State on the expulsion of an apprentice Uzbek terrorist, has once again fueled the debate on judicial activism and the “government of judges”.

According to the little game that has become routine, the members of the criticized jurisdictions and their idolatrous supporters obviously cry out for the calling into question of the “rule of law” and the alleged contempt for institutions.

These outraged groans are in complete bad faith.

The hypocritical denial of excess jurisdictional power exasperates citizens who, even if they do not master the mysteries of our legal system, see with their own eyes that the representatives they elect are reduced to impotence by lying arguments. whose sole aim is to gag democracy, refuse the verdict of the ballot boxes and precisely call into question the balance of powers desired by...

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