The judiciary doth protest too much, methinks

Judges should reflect on whether their row with the Government over independence are in the public interest, writes Dan Buckley

THE constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare; nor should this court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.”

Those are the words of John Marshall Harlan II, an American jurist who served on the US supreme court from 1955 to 1971.