Actually nowhere in the democratic world does the judiciary appoint its own successors. Only in the farcical Indian "collegium" system where the judiciary has captured power on its own accord, and turned the Supreme Court into a hereditary autocracy.
Nothing "fair" about it. The people, and their representatives, are supreme in a democracy. Without the people having the power to change judges, and this power being held by a small exclusive elite unelected coterie, it is simply judicial dictatorship.
Who gave judges the power to overrule the people without any checks on them? Yes, there is an elite which is deeply suspicious of democracy and prefer judges in the British lineage, lords with no accountability, but that is not called democracy.
There is no constitutional mention of "collegium." It is part of judicial overreach, abrogating power to themselves.
Oh, I understand. I’m using that to comment on the situation in India where judges *do* choose their successors.
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