The Hindu Editorial Analysis : 22nd April 2023

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Apr 22

The Hindu Editorial Analysis

The Importance of Reading The Hindu Editorial: Reading The Hindu newspaper has several benefits, including improving reading skills, facilitating comprehension, staying informed of current events, enhancing essay writing, and more. For individuals aiming for a career in banking, reading editorials is crucial for vocabulary building. In this article, we will examine today's editorials, provide practice questions, and highlight important vocabulary words.

The Hindu is now synonymous with civil services aspirants. What brought on this cult readership?

Required pushback.

The Supreme Court collegium has done well to push back against the Union government's attempts to block the appointment of some advocates as High Court judges.
The three-member collegium, which makes recommendations for High Court appointments, has reiterated its decision to elevate lawyers Saurabh Kirpal to the Delhi High Court, R. John Sathyan to the Madras High Court and Somasekhar Sundaresan to the Bombay High Court.

As it dealt in detail with the objections raised by the Centre In each individual case, the motives behind the government's ongoing contestation with the judiciary over appointments to constitutional courts stand exposed.

Communications between the collegium and the Centre o!er a glimpse into the untenable nature of the government's objections to proposed appointees, making it abundantly clear how badly the current regime wants to control judicial appointments.

If the objection based on a candidate's sexual orientation smacks of a medieval-minded ideological bias, the effort to the elevation of a couple of advocates based on their social media activity exposes a mindset that sees appointments to the higher judiciary as a system of spoils meant for political loyalists.

As the collegium has pointed out, neither the sexual orientation of Mr. Kirpal nor the airing of political views by the other two advocates will impinge on their suitability or integrity.
The government appears to think that potential candidates for judicial appointments should not have political views of their own, or that a tendency to make their views or opinion known will amount to a possible bias in their functioning as judges.

Nothing can disprove this more than the fact that there are other names — to which the government seems to have no objections — that are closely associated with political parties.
Indeed, one can say that the history of judicial appointments is replete with instances of government law officers, who invariably enjoy the confidence of the political leadership at the Center or the States, and lawyers who represent political leaders being offered positions on both the Supreme Court and High Court Benches.

Practice Questions:

What has the supreme court collegium done?
What is meant by the term 'collegium'.How many members are present in the collegium of the Supreme court?

Important Vocabs:

Collegium- the Chief Justice of India along with four senior-most Supreme Court judges recommend appointments and transfers of judges
Reiterate- to repeat an opinion, statement, etc.
Contestation- the action or process of disputing or arguing
Replete- filled with something
Smacks- to hit somebody with the inside of your hand when it is flat