July 5th, 2012
Judges Behaving Badly — How Pakistan’s Supreme Court Is Undermining Democracy In late June, Pakistan’s Supreme Court unseated the country’s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, and pulled off a kind of soft coup. The move is only the latest instance of the court injecting itself into the country’s politics. But it is arguably the most corrosive intervention yet into the country’s democratic institutions.

Judges Behaving Badly — How Pakistan’s Supreme Court Is Undermining Democracy

In late June, Pakistan’s Supreme Court unseated the country’s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, and pulled off a kind of soft coup. The move is only the latest instance of the court injecting itself into the country’s politics. But it is arguably the most corrosive intervention yet into the country’s democratic institutions.

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