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You should sometimes review the Indian judicial system and their judgements. I have never seen a more self congratulatory, smug and confident yet incompetent people in my life. All hiding under some pretense of intellectual superiority that is enabled by a corrupt collegium system that makes it difficult to disrupt.

Essentially run by a handful of families and inner circle. Just another shadow govt. type entity.




Bangladeshi Supreme Court decisions are similar. Just completely lawless. Makes “emanations from penumbras” seem rigorous in comparison.


The one comparing Islam to a national bird or something was right up there.


The Bangladesh high court ruling that reinstated the quota system and quite likely was the catalyst for the subsequent overthrow of the government was completely devoid of legal standards: https://www.supremecourt.gov.bd/resources/documents/2110398_...

The high court found a constitutional right to the quota even though it wasn’t in the text of the constitution. Textualism could have saved the government.


Weren’t these all Hasina’s judges?




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