New Delhi: In a fresh development in the Justice G.R. Swaminathan row, 56 judges from the Supreme Court and various High Courts have signed a protection backing the controversial Madras High Court Judge calling the attempts by certain MPs in the Parliament to impeach him “a brazen attempt to browbeat judges”.

"This is a brazen attempt to browbeat judges who do not fall in line with the ideological and political expectations of a particular section of society. If such an attempt is permitted to proceed, it would cut at the very roots of our democracy and the independence of the judiciary.

Referring to the mechanisms undertaken during the Emergency against judges who refused to “toe the line,” specifically the sidelining of Justice H.R. Khanna after his dissent in the ADM Jabalpur case, t

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