Liberia: Editorial – National Bar and Supreme Court Must Cease Fire

A clear divide is emerging in the Liberian Judiciary, with action and counter-action between the Liberian National Bar Association and the Supreme Court of Liberia. Following the Bar’s recent public criticism of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the leadership crisis at the House of Representatives, the Court has retaliated by boycotting a Law Day celebration organized by the Bar.

The entire bench of the Supreme Court of Liberia was visibly absent from Friday’s Law Day commemoration held by the Bar,…