Uhuru Kenyatta’s refusal to fulfil his constitutional duty to appoint and gazette JSC-nominated judges is a tyranny against the judiciary.
For Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Odinga, the dim prospects of the Bill process could upend any succession plans they have hatched together. Political analysts believe that...
Ms Atsango Chesoni, constitutional lawyer, former member of the constitution of Kenya Committee of Experts (COE) and a former Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights...
President Uhuru Kenyatta should live up to his oath of office to obey the constitution and resist the temptation to be garlanded in the pettiness of...
Which of Chief Justice Martha Koome’s pasts will define her reign?
The landmark High Court judgement against the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) has rightly been hailed as the unprecedented judicial triumph it is. Still, Prof Makau Mutua...
Waikwa Wanyoike argues that the recent High Court judgement that stopped BBI in its tracks, for now, was more consequential than the Maraga judgement that nullified...
The BBI judgment is therefore historic in two ways. It is historic for its elaboration of basic structure doctrine. But it is also historic because it...
There are implied constitutional limitations by which the constitution should not be amended in a way that changes the basic structure and features of the constitution...
It is not that the 2010 constitution cannot be amended. It is just that the constitution is very sensitive about, abhors and will fight back and...
The constitutional stars have aligned and the entire judiciary has the rare opportunity to speak with one strong voice and assert its constitutional authority.
The High Court joins the family of courts that have adopted a variant of the basic structure doctrine, and has done so in an entirely unique...
