THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Left Push to Ban Germany’s Populist AfD.
A bloc of left-wing lawyers and judges in Germany is calling for the ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country's most popular party.
A left-leaning legal group in Germany is calling for the ban of Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country’s most popular party. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: More than 1,000 German lawyers, judges, prosecutors, legal scholars, and other jurists have signed an open letter urging the federal government and parliament to initiate proceedings before Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. DETAIL: The campaign argues that a recent legal opinion commissioned by the Society for Civil Liberties, based on millions of publicly available data points and thousands of pieces of evidence, provides sufficient grounds to examine whether the anti-mass migration AfD’s politics make it…Open