Liberia: Associate Justice Speaks On Court's Ruling

18 December 2014
The NEWS (Monrovia)

Associate Justice Kabinah M. Ja'neh says the Supreme Court of Liberia has woefully failed to rise up to its constitutional duty to interpret the law during its recent ruling into petition for a Writ of Prohibition filed by some political parties and a group of concerned eminent citizens against the National Elections Commission.

In his dissenting opinion last Saturday with the majority decision, Justice Ja'neh told the court that he differed with the fundamental point by the majority that the issues raised by the petitioners were political questions, which should be venue before the Executive and Legislative Branches of Government.

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