When judicial independence is quietly punished, every future decision is shadowed by fear:
rule according to conscience, and you could be next. In that silence, the law itself begins to bend.
people steeped in adversarial roles, now asked to appear neutral while operating under political expectations.
Some will resist the pressure; many will adapt. But once a government learns it can curate outcomes by curating judges,
the practice rarely stays confined to immigrants. Today, it’s asylum seekers.
Tomorrow, it’s protestors, journalists, you. Judicial engineering never stops where it starts.
