
Mykhailo Zhernakov: How a draft law risks putting Ukraine’s Constitutional Court under full political control
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At the end of April, the Verkhovna Rada registered draft law No. 9225, which further changed the procedure for selecting judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU). Spoiler alert: the draft law will establish the government’s complete political control over the CCU.
“This has already happened,” the attentive reader will say. At the end of