Others may do so in future … Current targeting practices weaken the rule of law.
His readiness to use strong-arm tactics on the police and judiciary weakens the rule of law.
Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing, said in 2012 that the practice threatened to "weaken the rule of law".
That hasn't stopped a familiar group of politicians from cynically trying to use this incident as yet another excuse to weaken the rule of law and this country's barely recovering reputation.
"The Polish government has continued to pursue legislation that appears to undermine judicial independence and weaken the rule of law in Poland," wrote a US State Department representative.
"Having Washington pick winners and losers in the marketplace only further distorts the market, weakens the rule of law, and ultimately, fails to spur sustainable job creation," Ryan argues on his Web site.
"The Polish government has continued to pursue legislation that appears to undermine judicial independence and weaken the rule of law in Poland.
In so doing, the court weakened itself and weakened the rule of law, but did nothing to weaken our resolve to protect religious liberty and return to democratic self-government in the face of judicial activists attempting to tell us how to live," Paxton wrote in the opinion.
"Not only the fact that children do best when they are raised in a home with a mother and a father, but certainly sociological research bears that out as well".... "This is renegade judicial activism that ought to be stopped because it weakens the judiciary, it weakens the rule of law, and it undermines the trust of the people in justice and in law," contends Staver.
(The problem can not be resolved by weakening the rule of substitution for identity).
