PSC members, not Judges but investigators
If the CJ is an honourable person there is no
need for anyone to bring an impeachment motion against her. Now all
are talking whether it is correct to bring in an impeachment motion
and whether it was done properly. That is not the problem or
question. We should go to its roots. The CJ is the chairman of the
JSC. It is the JSC chaired by the CJ which appointed and transferred
Judges of all courts except the highest courts. Those Judges too
have no rights. They have no place to go to challenge for their
rights. There are Judges who had undergone suffering due to
decisions taken by the CJ,
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NO SIR -- LAWYERS AND JUDGES CANNOT TAKE THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN
HANDS
Clearly, judges who are being investigated on
impeachment charges have no recourse to judicial review in the
United States for instance, and this has been settled law in the
State of Michigan for example. It is obvious that no polity can
function if the Judiciary constantly keeps overriding the
Legislature, in areas that are clearly turfed out constitutionally
for lawmakers,
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Playing by rules
What should be as sacred as the independence of
judges to decide issues in accordance with the law is the law
itself. Where the law is clear, judges have no business to change
it. Of course if they believe a law is in conflict with the
constitution, they should strike it down, or request amendment, and
they should also have the right to do this subsequent to the law
being enacted and its effect seen through actual implementation. I
would suggest that this should apply also to laws which seem unfair,
as with regard to that regarding statutory rape, and Parliament
should review such laws,
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