Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.
Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.
The security conundrum could also impact the situation surrounding Taiwan, argues Wolfgang Petermann, a US Army official currently assigned to the Defence Intelligence Agency.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
The SC cannot “interpret the Constitution” to pose restrictions on the President of India. The CJI has neither the authority nor the Constitutional imprimatur to pass diktats on the functioning of the President.
The Supreme Court must course correct. Otherwise, the Legislature and the Executive would be forced to clip it’s wings.
The words need not trigger a panic attack, true, but where they are coming from needs to be meticulously analysed. Do they reflect an underlying stress in the official relationship.
Isn’t all executive action subject to judicial review. And isn’t honourable President bound by the advice tendered by the Cabinet, effectively the political executive. Does the Constitution carve out privileged spaces for holders of high constitutional office, beyond immunity from prosecution.
The SC cannot “interpret the Constitution” to pose restrictions on the President of India. The CJI has neither the authority nor the Constitutional imprimatur to pass diktats on the functioning of the President.
The Supreme Court must course correct. Otherwise, the Legislature and the Executive would be forced to clip it’s wings.
The words need not trigger a panic attack, true, but where they are coming from needs to be meticulously analysed. Do they reflect an underlying stress in the official relationship.
Isn’t all executive action subject to judicial review. And isn’t honourable President bound by the advice tendered by the Cabinet, effectively the political executive. Does the Constitution carve out privileged spaces for holders of high constitutional office, beyond immunity from prosecution.