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[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

ELI5 why would you elect a judge? You want judge to be independent from politics and just legal expert, here to apply strictly the law and limit as much as possible the weight of their personal opinions, so every citizen is judged the same way.

Electing judge seems backward and totally opposite to that goal

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

This entirely depends on your point of view.

We also passively vote on the law by electing the people in charge of passing it. Why not also vote on the people interpreting it?

How else do you want to fill the position for a judge? By a panel of experts? Who decides who is part of this panel? Who decides what the selection process is?

Effectively there is a popular voting process somewhere. The debate is only where exactly in the chain.

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