From protection against the horrors of concentration camps to the protection of the „professional existence“ of bent judges
Keywords:
material core of constitution, vetting of judges, implied powers theoryAbstract
Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic in its breakthrough finding PL. ÚS 21/2014 declared non-compliance of the Constitution with itself. His more than hundred-page reasoning is a remarkable repository of unfinished arguments, contradictions, half-truths, and non-truths. The fundamental problem of the decision is not that the Constitutional Court has instructed the Parliament to follow certain principles. The problem is that the Court has done so in a way that has made it clear how much he himself does not intend to follow the same principles. In this paper, I will focus on the partial problem of implicit powers. I will try to show that if the other state authorities inferred and exercised their powers as the Constitutional Court in this case, the Slovak Republic
would have long been a dictatorship.
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