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Fascist playbook: Attack the courts.

Posted on: June 8, 2025 at 00:02:41 CT
TigerMatt STL
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It is standard in fascist politics for harsh criticisms of an independent judiciary to occur in the form of accusations of bias, a kind of corruption, critiques that are then used to replace independent judges with ones who will cynically employ the law as a means to protect the interests of the ruling party. The recent rapid transition of certain apparently successful democratic states, such as Hungary and Poland, to nondemocratic rule has made this tactic of undermining the independent judiciary particularly salient, as both countries introduced laws to replace independent judges with party loyalists soon after antidemocratic regimes took power. Officially, the justification was that prior practices of judicial neutrality were a mask for bias against the ruling party. In the name of rooting out corruption and supposed bias, fascist politicians attack and diminish the institutions that might otherwise check their power.
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Fascist playbook: Attack the courts. - TigerMatt STL - 6/8 00:02:41
     ^^still can’t define fascism ^^(nm) - Spanky KU - 6/8 08:44:11
     or activates judges attacking political leaders - fatrat MU - 6/8 05:16:30




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