What happened to those six judges is not a glitch in the system; it is the system revealing itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were removed not because they failed, but because they granted refuge<\/p>\n\n\n\n
too often in a climate obsessed with deterrence and deportation statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When judicial independence is quietly punished, every future decision is shadowed by fear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
rule according to conscience, and you could be next. In that silence, the law itself begins to bend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their replacements signal the new design: a bench increasingly stocked with former prosecutors and military lawyers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
people steeped in adversarial roles, now asked to appear neutral while operating under political expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some will resist the pressure; many will adapt. But once a government learns it can curate outcomes by curating judges,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the practice rarely stays confined to immigrants. Today, it\u2019s asylum seekers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tomorrow, it\u2019s protestors, journalists, you. Judicial engineering never stops where it starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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