It is no longer only the political fringes where the language of contempt is taking root. When Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) declared the day after a constitutionally confirmed legal principle that he would not change his stance, it was no slip of the tongue \u2013 it was deliberate policy. On June 2, 2025, the 6th Chamber of the Berlin Administrative Court ruled in cases VG 6 L 191\/25 et al. that the rejection of asylum seekers at the German-Polish border without a prior asylum procedure is unlawful. Three Somali asylum seekers had been stopped by federal police in Frankfurt (Oder) on May 9, 2025, despite expressing a request for asylum, and were returned to Poland that same day \u2013 without a hearing, without due process, without a Dublin procedure. The court made it clear: this practice violates both German and European law. The decisions are final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yet, that same evening, Dobrindt declared that the government would \u201cmaintain the current practice,\u201d insisting the ruling was \u201conly a single case.\u201d In truth, it was anything but: it was a defense of the rule of law against a political practice that refuses clarity. What was once seen as a neutral authority is now labeled a disruption. Judges, administrative courts, constitutional bodies \u2013 they are increasingly suspected of undermining the \u201cenforcement power of the state\u201d when they rule against deportations. The parallels to developments in the United States under Donald Trump are striking \u2013 only now the CDU\/CSU in 2025 is beginning to translate Trump\u2019s lessons into German bureaucratic language. Because the climate has shifted. According to the latest poll, the CDU\/CSU stands at 26.5%, still two points ahead of the AfD. Together, they effectively dominate the debate \u2013 not only numerically, but rhetorically. What has long been political reality in the U.S. \u2013 a systematic attack on the independence of the judiciary, flanked by media campaigns and mobilization against \u201cleft-wing judges\u201d \u2013 is beginning to take shape here as well. When Dobrindt speaks of \u201cabuse of asylum under the protection of the judiciary,\u201d he no longer marks the judge as part of the state, but as its saboteur. A dangerous game with the separation of powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, the SPD stagnates at 16%, the Greens remain stuck at 10.5%. The political left is fragmented \u2013 10.5% for Die Linke, 4% for the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance. And the FDP? Also at 4% \u2013 adrift in the irrelevance of a hollowed-out liberalism. The political landscape is marked by a tectonic shift, in which right-wing populist and conservative narratives about migration policy, law and order, and national strength are in the ascendancy. But this is not just about numbers. It is about a vision of humanity. About whether courts exist to serve the people \u2013 or the state. About whether fundamental rights remain individual rights \u2013 or are subjected to political expedience. In Berlin, administrative judges \u2013 like those of the 6th Chamber \u2013 do not rule with pathos, but with fidelity to the law. They examine individual cases, weigh protection needs, ensure hearings take place, and uphold the integrity of legal standards. What sounds like a normal function of the rule of law is increasingly being framed by segments of the CDU\/CSU as \u201csabotage\u201d \u2013 as though justice were an obstacle rather than a safeguard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The AfD has long embraced this line. But the fact that the CDU\/CSU is now following suit \u2013 using language eerily similar to the U.S. discourse under Trump \u2013 is a warning sign. Whoever declares the courts to be the \u201clast bastion\u201d is also saying: we are on the brink of siege. And this rhetoric has consequences \u2013 for migrants, for judges, for a society slowly growing accustomed to authoritarian tones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Germany must ask itself: is this still a contest for majorities \u2013 or already a struggle over the very foundations?<\/p>\n
Es sind nicht mehr nur die politischen R\u00e4nder, von denen die Sprache der Verachtung kommt. Wenn Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) am Tag nach einem h\u00f6chstrichterlich best\u00e4tigten Verfassungsgrundsatz erkl\u00e4rt, seine Linie nicht \u00e4ndern zu wollen, ist das kein Ausrutscher \u2013 es ist Programmatik. Am 2. Juni 2025 urteilte die 6. Kammer des Verwaltungsgerichts Berlin in den […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-news"],"yoast_head":"\n