‘LEGAL COUP’ FROM HULFTSDORP
There is a ‘legal coup’ or constitutional coup attempt brewing in
Hulftsdorp among certain sections of the legal fraternity backed by
powerful vested interests, informed sources tell this newspaper.
These sources say that for a long time now, there have been subtly
engineered attempts to subvert the elected government of the people, by
attempting to legitimize the transfer of supremacy springing from the
sovereignty of the people via the elected legislature, to the appointed
judiciary. Certain prominent persons in the legal fraternity have been
advocating that position in open court, while in a more subtle way, they
have been promoting that view in the public domain -- even as there is
an impeachment motion before the Legislature that seeks to investigate
the Chief Justice for actions unworthy of her office.
This ‘legal coup’ or constitutional coup attempt has a recent
history, these very sources some from the legal fraternity say - -
though they have not been willing to divulge their identities due to
possible peer pressure in the so called legal fraternity. (Please see
editorial on page 8).
These sources say that the first step of this design is to mislead
the people into thinking the fountainhead of people’s sovereignty is the
appointed judiciary, and not the elected House of people’s
representatives, the parliament.
What’s brazen, they also say, is the flagrant attempt to publicly
take up that position when the people’s elected legislature is
attempting to restore integrity to the judiciary, when there is a prima
facie case of misdoing on the part of the Chief Justice. Moreover, all
of the constitutional processes observed elsewhere in the world have
been observed, in the impeachment process - - the same process used for
impeachment of Supreme Court and federal judges in the United States for
instance.
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