Coming up on ten years:
“Zimbabwe court rules seizing of white-owned land legal”
Dec 5, 2001 - HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s top court has declared the government’s plan to seize white-owned farms legal, overturning its own previous ruling that the seizures were unconstitutional.
In a judgment released Tuesday, four of the five Supreme Court justices appointed to hear the new seizure case said they were satisfied the government’s “fast track” land nationalization program was lawful and “sufficiently complied” with the constitution.
Last year’s Supreme Court ruling declared the government’s methods of land seizures illegal and in breach of constitutional ownership rights and government land laws.
Some of the judges who made that ruling have been replaced in recent months.
Four of the five judges hearing the new case, including Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, were appointed recently by President Robert Mugabe. Those four voted to uphold the government’s land seizure program.
The Supreme Court traditionally had only five judges until Mugabe expanded the bench to eight in July, adding three judges considered loyal to the ruling party. The chief justice usually appoints small panels of judges to hear each case.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has described the court’s expansion as a political ploy designed to turn the court into a government puppet. [end excerpt]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/583991/posts?page=419
Anyone notice how the U.S. courts are packed with socialists who overturn the will of the people, making election outcomes moot?
Just like the Progressive we know as FDR tried to do. Look for 0 to try the same.