Carrie Severino, Chief Counsel and Policy Director of the Judicial Crisis Network, talked about her organization's role in the confirmation battle to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. She is interviewed by Niels Lesniewski, Senior Staff Writer at CQ Roll Call, Greg Stohr, Supreme Court Correspondent at Bloomberg News, and C-SPAN host Steve Scully.
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https://twitter.com/LegalLro/status/1461207629582139392
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/meet-saurabh-kirpal-likely-to-become-india-s-first-gay-judge/ar-AAQKGo6
Nicolas' LinkedIn Profile l writes "Swiss Government Employee" from 2016 onwards- in "Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs" under "Humanitarian Affairs" in New Delhi.
Coincidentally the first time SC collegium approved to make Kirpal SC judge was just months after Nicolas Germain Bachmann got position in Swiss Foreign Embassy in New Delhi. Prior to that- from 1995-2015, he was working in International Red Cross in different positions.
Meanwhile media like TOI, Wire obviously are making govt's reluctance to appoint Kirpal about his sexual orientation and not about the gigantic conflict of interest the size of Indian money in Swiss foreign accounts that Kirpal would literally be empowered to decide all governance of India, while being family member of Swiss govt employee.
Earlier in 2020, when GOI had banned protests to be funded by foreign funds, SC had repealed the GOI order. Currently it is hearing plea to make FCRA laws more lenient which requires all those organisations directly or indirectly receiving foreign funds to be registered with GOI to track the funding.
https://livelaw.in/top-stories/fcra-amendments-2020-supreme-court-ngos-foreign-powers-centre-diversion-of-funds-184100
https://livelaw.in/top-stories/fcra-amendments-supreme-court-foreign-contributions-ngo-supreme-court-184731
https://www.opindia.com/2020/03/supreme-court-ngo-foreign-funds-agitations-protests-public-cause-politics/amp/
https://np.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/qn7xwm/govtfcra_amendments_aim_to_prevent_foreign_powers/
The importance that these NGOs hold as foreign policy tools for US & other neocolonial nations was made blatant by the fact that first thing US Secretary of State Blinken did on his India visit was hold a round table conference with these "civil society groups".
https://np.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/ott58c/gravitas_us_secretary_of_state_blinken_discussed/
