Tag: abusive judicial review
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The Role of a Judge in an Electoral Autocracy
—Aparna Chandra, Associate Professor of Law and M. K. Nambyar Chair Professor on Constitutional Law, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] The Autocrats’ Playbook This is the year of elections.
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Of Counting Votes, Televised Supreme Court Proceedings, and the Problematic Use of Constitutional Categories—a Rejoinder
—Mariana Velasco-Rivera, National University of Ireland Maynooth, School of Law and Criminology; Co-Editor, IACL Blog. Twitter: @marisconsin. [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2022 columnists, see here.] In my recent column ‘When Judges Threaten Constitutional Governance: Evidence from Mexico’, I discussed a Supreme Court high-profile case (Acción de Inconstitucionalidad 64/2021) in…
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Seeing the Whole Picture of the Debate in the Mexican Supreme Court: A Response to “When Judges Threaten Constitutional Governance: Evidence from Mexico”
–Roberto Niembro, General Director of Institutional Relations of the Mexican Supreme Court; UNAM and co-Chair of ICON-S Mexico I write this post in response to the column When Judges Threaten Constitutional Governance: Evidence from Mexico because it wrongly suggests that the application of voting rules by the Chief Justice Arturo Zaldívar during the session of…
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When Judges Threaten Constitutional Governance: Evidence from Mexico
—Mariana Velasco-Rivera, National University of Ireland Maynooth, School of Law and Criminology; Co-Editor, IACL Blog. Twitter: @marisconsin. [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2022 columnists, see here.] The literature on democratic erosion and democratic backsliding has documented how political leaders around the world seek to use mechanisms of (formal and…