more-inThe Supreme Court, this past month, provided us with a useful reminder about its worth to our constitutional democracy. Joseph, currently Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, for elevation to the Supreme Court. Like the Chinese symbols yin and yang, America’s written Constitution and America’s unwritten Constitution form two halves of one whole, with each half gesturing toward the other.”India’s Constitution is possibly the longest written constitution in the world, but it too leaves much unsaid. It states that judges of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the President, after consultation with certain authorities, including the CJI. But the framers could not have possibly envisaged the Supreme Court sitting in a multitude of panels of two and three judges.

Source: The Hindu May 28, 2018 18:33 UTC