German court orders Youtube to restore deleted channel of news site
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A few months back a judge ruled against some COVID mandate. In response local prosecutors opened an investigation into the judge for perversion of justice. They've executed search warrants for his office, home and that of witnesses in the case.
In Germany prosecutors are direct subordinates of local politicians, i.e. the ones whose mandate the judge ruled against. Meaning this investigation was an obvious retaliation. Haven't heard anything about this since then so I don't know if anyone actually got arrested.
In a more recent case, judges ruled against other COVID mandates. As a result the court "mysteriously" got rearranged and the chamber that ruled against the mandate was relieved of its duties and replaced with a new one.
Judges who rule against the government put their livelihood and possibly their freedom on the line in Germany.
That honestly, unironically sounds rather like Aus…
Although here, it’s not so much that courts are “subordinate”, but rather that politicians (particularly Federal ones) can, and do, simply overrule the court, at their whim…
See: Djokovic. Or the NT legalization of voluntary euthanasia in the 1990s, among other things…