Are #ConstitutionalCourts really neutral?🧑⚖️
These authors 🧵👇 look at Spain's Constitutional Court 🇪🇸 ⚖️ across 4 decades to see how judicial outcome is shaped by political alignment, institutional design , and cour ideology.
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In their new article for CS, Alexei Trochev and Alisher Juzgenbayev present a sweeping analysis of the trajectories of #constitutionalcourts and #constitutionallaw in #post-Soviet states.
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#ConstitutionalCourts are political institutions disguised as judicial bodies.
Their main purpose is to minimize #politicization of ordinary courts, relieving them of the burden to decide on the most politicized juridical question, i.e. the constitutionality of legislation
Are #ConstitutionalCourts joining @bsky.app ? by now I would say "no". Should they do? This is going to be BIG issue. By now, Courts communication is an overlooked topic. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW SCHOLARS, WE NEED YOU!!!!
