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Lol at you believing courts or judges don't follow their countries dictates. Most of the time such cases would be routed to a judge that will do what is asked without making any noise.

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Where I come from, there is no need to route cases. I used to believe in Western justice systems, but as I've grown older, I've come to realize that much of the corruption money from Asia, Africa, and South America is parked in these same Western countries. Many of the corrupt officials who have fled their home countries are now living in these same Western countries, and in many cases, their families have been granted citizenship. The behavior of the ruling elite in Western countries tells me all I need to know about their justice systems. It seems that a large portion of the population has willingly, maybe unknowingly, put on blinders to their own countries' systems and behaviors.

maybe wherever you are from that’s true, but not really in the developed anglosphere

This stuff is true in the US to some extent.

no it's not, but i get that it's "in" to hate on the US political structure. essentially all federal cases are randomly assigned

I don't think it's widespread by any means but the US Supreme Court has been directly pulled into this exact topic.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/g-s1-28919/supreme-court-judg...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/judg...

https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/27/judge-shopping-expl...

this is more describing circuit shopping, which is a far cry from what OP is suggesting

In my country judges don't get elected. They pretty much sit in their ivory tower and fuck up anyone they want.

Which is part of the reason why the Netherlands is not a superpower.

Judges don't get elected in the US (except for some state and local judges) and yet the US is a superpower. I don't think judicial selection plays a major factor in determining superpower status.

Can you name any country that has ever been a superpower where judges (of the national judiciary if it has separate judiciaries for constituent parts from the national one) were predominantly democratically elected?

https://www.cigionline.org/articles/why-east-texas-ground-ze...

I do think this is a great counterexample, but it is largely a bug in the law specific to patents that was closed in 2017. Even then, IIUC on appeal your case would still be randomized.

Judiciary and law enforcement are some of the most corrupt people

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