Electing Judges in Mexico? It’s a Bad Idea.
But, consistent with his systematic attacks on checks and balances, his project to elect judges could lead to the death of democracy in Mexico.
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Ms. Singh is a professor at Stanford Law School and the executive director of the school’s Rule of Law Impact Lab. Ms. Garcia is an expert adviser to the lab.
https://law.stanford.edu/rule-of-law-impact-lab/#slsnav-our-focus :
Democracy is in decline around the world. Governments elected to power with populist agendas are increasingly adopting authoritarian tactics. There are striking similarities in the methods deployed to subvert democracy. These methods typically include compromising electoral integrity, undermining judicial independence, and quashing free expression and dissent. The Stanford Law School Rule of Law Impact Lab studies and uses legal tools to counter core threats to democracy and to promote democratic renewal worldwide.
Incredible
I will +1 this. Where I live, judges are directly elected and a ton of them are corrupt, incompetent, or just plain bad.
Don't know what the alternative is. We still need democratic accountability, but man oh man there was one judge that the local bar association rated as not qualified and they still won like 60% of the vote.