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The chief justice's comments came days after Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar criticised the 1973 judgement which separated powers of judiciary and executive.

CJI D.Y. Chandrachud's comments come days after Dhankhar said that he does not agree with the basic structure doctrine.

The CJI delivered the Nani Palkhivala Memorial Lecture; later addressed the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa and hinted at use of AI for translated copies of judgements in all Indian languages

The Germans learnt from the bitter experience of the Nazi era that it was important to limit parliament's amending power.

Vice President Dhankhar had on Wednesday criticised the scrapping of the NJAC Act in 2015 and also questioned the Kesavananda Bharati case verdict, saying it set a wrong precedent.

'Hon'ble Chairman's views should warn every Constitution-loving citizen to be alert to the dangers ahead,' P. Chidambaram tweeted in response, a day later.

The plea before the Supreme Court seeks the quashing of a 2022 Bihar government notification that called for the conduct of a caste census.

The Vice-President, speaking during the event of the 8th Dr LM Singhvi Memorial Lecture, added that deviation from working harmoniously with the judiciary will 'upset the apple cart'

Yaniv Roznai (Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya - Radzyner School of Law) has posted We the Limited People? On the People as a Constitutional Organ in Constitutional Amendments (109 Supreme Court Law Review (forthcoming 2022)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...

The State government stated in its appeal that the finding that a State did not have the power to decide on its capital is violative of the basic structure of the Constitution.