Hungary nullifies independent judiciary, cementing Orban's authoritarian grip
Source: Think Progress
The new "reforms" would make it all-but-impossible to prosecute him or anyone in his party.
LUKE BARNES
DEC 13, 2018, 11:28 AM
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban took another step closer to becoming Europes premier autocrat by passing a law that effectively nullifies the countrys independent judiciary.
Under the new legislation, which passed through the Hungarian Parliament on Wednesday, the countrys supreme court is now stripped of its ability to judge what are known as administrative disputes. In Hungary, this is a wide-ranging description encompassing everything from electoral law to corruption to police abuse to tax evasion.
Instead, a new system will be set up over the next 12 months overseen by Orbans justice minister, who will control which judges get promoted to settle the administrative disputes. Hungarys existing independent judiciary would be significantly weakened and have no oversight of the new system.
The move to quash the independence of the judiciary is the latest autocratic move by Orban, who is feeling increasingly emboldened as the beleaguered European Union confronts political threats on all sides, be it from Brexit, the Yellow Vests protests in France, or the rise of far-right parties like AfD in Germany.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/viktor-orban-cements-authoritarian-grip-on-hungarys-courts-15218d4c1e97/
Let's not forget that, they became part of NATO in 1999 after the so called end of the Cold War.............
And if anyone doesn't think that this asshole is not in cahoose with Putin and his agenda.....................
https://www.newsweek.com/2018/04/27/putin-kremlin-russia-trump-orban-bannon-nationalism-iron-curtain-eu-891843.html
And a book from Robert Kutter.................Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)turbinetree
(24,632 posts)Javaman
(62,442 posts)the ministry of truth.
DownriverDem
(6,206 posts)Just think what the repubs would do if they had kept the House?
pecosbob
(7,511 posts)The new SC will likely rule to give themselves unprecedented new oversight of federal regulations in Kisor v. Wilkie.
https://thinkprogress.org/brett-kavanaughs-court-threatens-auer-deference-80f4b3e3169d/
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)dominated court of lackeys.......................the public has to keep an eye on these people like Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, they shouldn't even be on the bench let alone Thomas.................
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)England has a proud history, an independent history. Unique because they are on an island. But this is a new age. Borders don't mean as much economically. It makes sense to band together as a union. But the EU needed Britain's participation to work. Just to weigh the union towards democratic institutions a little more, with their influence as a full time member.
They could have stepped up, even if reluctantly giving up that independence, to help defend Europe, much in the same spirit they once did. They should have stayed with the EU and been part of the leadership, not only for their own economic interests, but as a strong resistance to these new nationalist authoritarians rising up. Even ones from across the pond.