How the FCC is rolling back decades of progress through regressive jurisprudence

There is not a single woman judge on the Federal Constitutional Court. It is a court composed entirely of men. At the time of the 27th Amendment , various unconvincing justifications were presented: the amendments would reduce pendency of cases; “activist” judges had brought these changes upon themselves; the FCC would hear important cases of constitutional interpretation that consumed too much of the Supreme Court’s time. But it was clear then, and it is clear now. The courts were being stripped of their independence. This threatens far more than political cases. Once judicial independence…