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Mexico will amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be elected (apnews.com)

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (12 children)

Interesting. If judges are going to be political regardless, I don't see another option for democracies.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

There is no such thing as an apolitical judge. The judges you see as apolitical are just centrists supporting the status quo, but that is not actually an apolitical frame of action.

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