Democracy’s challenge: Keeping judges independent and credible
Four simple words are critical to any functioning democracy: the rule of law.
But now, this lofty principle is facing a formidable real-world test: weathering the fractious partisanship of our 21st -century politics.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s sudden removal of women’s half-century-old constitutional right to abortion is just the latest sign. A similar controversy has been brewing across the Atlantic, in Poland. In other populist-ruled democracies – including Europe’s oldest, Britain, and Latin America’s largest, Brazil – the courts are also under
