nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180606-154920-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180606s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180606-154920-0 doi eng 342 23 Selejan-Gutan, Bianca Author aut The Taming of the Court – When Politics Overcome Law in the Romanian Constitutional Court Selejan-Gutan, Bianca Verfassungsblog 2018-06-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Romanian Constitutional Court has backstabbed the Romanian President in his efforts to protect the independence of the chief anti-corruption prosecutor. On 30 May 2018, the Constitutional Court ordered the President to dismiss the chief anti-corruption prosecutor via presidential decree. Before, the President had refused the proposed dismissal by the Minister of Justice based on an Advisory Opinion of the Superior Council of Magistracy that stated that the reasons brought forward against the chief prosecutor were not substantiated enough to justify a dismissal. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 anti-corruption institutional independence President Romanian Constitutional Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-taming-of-the-court-when-politics-overcome-law-in-the-romanian-constitutional-court/ raw object