Trump launches war on cuts, challenges constitution and repeats extreme right

With the same booklet, the Ultranationalist Party Fides in Hungary adopted reforms in 2013 to weaken the separation of powers between the legislature and the judiciary. Viktor Orbán thus began to control the cuts.

In 2015, the Poland’s Law and Justice Party used mostly in Parliament to change the laws governing the Constitutional Court and appointed five new judges to the Court. In 2019, the government also created a new Supreme Court Chamber and changed the law to allow it to appoint and dismiss the Chief of the Supreme Court.

In Brazil, the conspirators of pockets also chose the judiciary as the great enemy. As the allies of Trump do, the indicted and ineligible Brazilian president announced about a sound car that would not comply with the orders of the cuts.

Not by chance, in different parts of the world, the defense of the judiciary became strategic to block the far right. In Germany, a reform was adopted in 2024 to reinforce the autonomy of the constitutional court and shield it against political influence. The idea was that enemies of democracy did not have a trail to dismantle the judiciary. All parties supported the idea. Except for the far right.

When autocrats come to power, dismantling the independence of other institutions is central so that their state kidnapping project can exist. Be to impose your worldview. Whether to concentrate power in the hand of a plutocracy.

To think that institutions will, by themselves, survive and curb the collapse of democracy has been the great mistake in several countries that bet on accommodation as a survival strategy. In February 1933, an editorial of a German newspaper led by Jews reassured readers explaining that the Nazi proposals to withdraw their rights or to put them in ghettos could not be implemented.