Legal status of judges |
Legal status of judges |
Article 98[Legal status of judges – Impeachment]
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| (1) The legal status of federal judges shall be regulated by a special federal law.
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| (2) If a federal judge infringes the principles of this Basic Law or the constitutional order of a Land in his official capacity or unofficially, the Federal Constitutional Court, upon application of the Bundestag, may by a two-thirds majority order that the judge be transferred or retired. In the case of an intentional infringement it may order his dismissal.
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| (3) The legal status of the judges in the Länder shall be regulated by special Land laws if item 27 of paragraph (1) of Article 74 does not otherwise provide.
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| (4) The Länder may provide that Land judges shall be chosen jointly by the Land Minister of Justice and a committee for the selection of judges.
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| (5) The Länder may enact provisions regarding Land judges that correspond with those of paragraph (2) of this Article. Existing Land constitutional law shall not be affected. The decision in cases of judicial impeachment shall rest with the Federal Constitutional Court.
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