Of independent judges and independent courts

Letter February 12, 2017
Nobody is indispensable but the law

ISLAMABAD: The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is reported to have rejected President Donald J Trump’s request for reinstatement of his travel ban. In the wake of this unanimous ruling, 3-0, now the citizens of the already banned seven Muslim countries can travel to the US. Travellers from Iran, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Somalia, Libya and Sudan were banned through an executive order, signed by President Trump. The decision of the US Court is overwhelmingly lauded both in the US and in countries around the globe. Such are called the independent judges and independent courts who decide in accordance with their conscience and the law. They never allow anyone in governmental authority to violate sanctity of the Constitution and run against the Constitution’s original meaning.

Indeed, independent judges and independent courts strongly believe that unjust systems, societies and states simply fail. Nobody is indispensable but the law, which is why independent judges in civilised and democratic countries are never given repeated extensions in the contractual employment to the deadwoods, not in any manner productive and propitious for the organisations and its employees in which they are rehired time and again.

Hashim Abro

Published in The Express Tribune, February 12th, 2017.

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