This is a nice piece, professor Rasmusen. I am going to read your law review article. The Chief Justice of the United States has said in effect that judges in this nation are not political. Presumably that also means not predisposed to favor the government when it is a party.
The Japanese system is more bureaucratic, as we explain in the article. We have a whole series of articles, summarize into a book, on politcal influence on hte Japanese judiciary. We realized that in tax, the politicians don't *want* the judges to rule for the government always, only when it's right, because courts are a way to protect the citizen from the tax bureaucrats. (Election law and constitutional law, tho are a different matter, we find...)
This is a nice piece, professor Rasmusen. I am going to read your law review article. The Chief Justice of the United States has said in effect that judges in this nation are not political. Presumably that also means not predisposed to favor the government when it is a party.
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/31/1069525986/chief-justice-john-roberts-ethics
The Japanese system is more bureaucratic, as we explain in the article. We have a whole series of articles, summarize into a book, on politcal influence on hte Japanese judiciary. We realized that in tax, the politicians don't *want* the judges to rule for the government always, only when it's right, because courts are a way to protect the citizen from the tax bureaucrats. (Election law and constitutional law, tho are a different matter, we find...)