Robert Jenrick's Authoritarian Plans for the Justice System Are Straight Out of the Trump Playbook
One only has to look at Trump's America to see what happens when a government, led by a narcissist with an authoritarian bent, decides that he is more powerful than any court of law, argues Gareth Roberts.
As a politics student in the late 1980s, the subject of the separation of powers in Western liberal democracies was imparted to eager students as an irrefutable and unbendable principle.
Separating the judiciary from the executive and legislature, we were taught, was a vital ingredient in providing a check on the potential excesses of power by a tyrannical individual or political organisation seeking to oppress or silence opponents.
Separating the judiciary from the executive and legislature... was a vital ingredient in providing a check on the potential excesses of power
Author summary: Plans resemble Trump's approach.
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