 Hi all Salvatore here with a quick primer. We Americans say primer on judicial supremacy and the American sense of humor Now with regard to my notorious tweet from yesterday, I'd like to say two things first It's a joke and second Anyone who takes legal advice from a middle-aged American man in a fez clearly needs a better lawyer On the concept of judicial supremacy the Indian Supreme Court has asserted a right to overturn even a lawfully passed amendment to the Constitution That is a level of judicial overreach unparalleled anywhere else in the world now The basic structure doctrine has been I think unfairly maligned in some ways There are some there is some truth to the idea of a basic structure of a constitution that can't be changed and That any society would resist it being changed That said the fact that the Indian Supreme Court has used the basic structure to abrogate changes to its own Authority is highly suspicious when for example the Supreme Court was silent on the issue of preventing equal representation in India by not abrogating the 42nd and the elements of the 42nd and 84th amendments that prevented equal representation in India So I think we have to take the basic structure doctrine as Actually applied by the Indian Supreme Court with something of a grain of salt and you know thus the fez now If the honorable mr. Donkar really is upset I welcome him or anyone from his office to email me and request that I take down the tweet And I will gladly do so in the meantime. Enjoy the joke. Enjoy the article and thanks for watching my videos