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Immigration law: a constitutionalist deplores the fact that elected officials are “capable of adopting laws that they know to be contrary to the Constitution”
Immigration law: a constitutionalist deplores the fact that elected officials are “capable of adopting laws that they know to be contrary to the Constitution” – (franceinfo)
Before the Constitutional Council made public its decision on the immigration law on the afternoon of Thursday January 25, the constitutionalist and professor of public law Jean-Philippe Derosier returned to the issues of this decision.
The Wise Men of the Constitutional Council made public their decision on the immigration law on the afternoon of Thursday January 25. Guest of 12/13 info a few hours before this decision, the constitutionalist Jean-Philippe Derosier deplored the fact that “we have elected officials, with democratic legitimacy, who are capable of adopting laws that they know to be contrary to the Constitution”with a “majority who assumed this probable, possible unconstitutionality”.
The question of legislative riders
Jean-Philippe Derosier also returned to the question of legislative riders. “These are provisions which have been introduced into the law, but which are not linked, even indirectly, to the object of the law”he recalled. “If the Constitutional Council censors provisions because they are cavalier (…), it is the Constitution which opposes it, but from a procedural point of view, that does not mean that in substance, the Constitution would prevent these provisions from being adopted.”he clarified.
