The Judge-Emperor: The Global Coup of the Courts
Peloni: There was a time when democracy represented rule by consent of the people, but now it is increasingly accepted as being the fiat of some fop in black robes.
by Drieu Godefridi • Gatestone Institute • July 8, 2025
In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging. The torrents of universal rules and requirements deriving from articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (e.g. privacy, dignity), and the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (pictured) are probably the worst modern example of tyrannical judicial imperialism. (Photo by Adrian Grycuk – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, Wikipedia)
- In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging…. [T]his judicial imperialism… [has] become a judicial tyranny….

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