{"id":246288,"date":"2026-10-04T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-speluncean-delusion-how-politics-fixation-on-knowing-the-judge-is-destroying-judicial-integrity\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:30:11","slug":"liberia-the-speluncean-delusion-how-politics-fixation-on-knowing-the-judge-is-destroying-judicial-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-speluncean-delusion-how-politics-fixation-on-knowing-the-judge-is-destroying-judicial-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: The Speluncean Delusion &#8211; How Politics&#8217; Fixation On Knowing the Judge Is Destroying Judicial Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The ongoing intellectual debate ignited by President Joseph Boakai&#8217;s maxim &#8220;a brilliant lawyer knows the law, but a good lawyer knows the judge&#8221; has given the public a rare and fascinating window into the soul of legal philosophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">Following heavy criticism from the eminent Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe, Minister Cllr Jerror Cole Bangalu stepped into the breach to defend the President&#8217;s remarks. In a well-reasoned, highly articulate defence, Cllr. Bangalu argued that &#8220;knowing the judge&#8221; does not imply&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610020315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing intellectual debate ignited by President Joseph Boakai&#8217;s maxim &#8220;a brilliant lawyer knows the law, but a good lawyer knows the judge&#8221; has given the public a rare and fascinating window into the soul of legal philosophy. Following heavy criticism from the eminent Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe, Minister Cllr Jerror Cole Bangalu stepped into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,55576,14754,55577,8339,7511,9667,44356,4712,1107,257,6916,254,55575],"class_list":["post-246288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-delusion","tag-destroying","tag-fixation","tag-integrity","tag-judge","tag-judicial","tag-knowing","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speluncean"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}