The decision rendered by the Constitutional Council on the immigration law on January 25 certainly marked an important milestone in the crisis of the democratic idea in France.
Declaring unconstitutional a significant part of the provisions of the text adopted on December 19 by the National Assembly and the Senate, the judges of the Rue de Montpensier raised a major question of legitimacy regarding their own republican role, summed up implacably by Jean- Éric Schoettl (former secretary general of the institution):
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How can we not note that a judge who pronounces “in the name of the French people” has hardly spared a law corresponding to the feelings of three quarters of our compatriots and voted by a comfortable majority of the nation's elected officials
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Beyond the satisfaction delivered by the government on this censorship, few commentators have noted that this decision also responded to the wishes of a vast set of “external contributions” addressed to the Council…
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