Shortly after the Deputy Prime Minister left the premises of the GJKKO, where she was informed about the security measures, Prime Minister Edi Rama posted on Facebook the speech of American prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. In his post, which he titled "Note of the day", but which seems to be a reaction to the situation of his government's number two, Rama writes that Jackson, as the US Attorney General, established the morality of the prosecutor in a modern state of law.
"I have long been impressed by the monumental figure of Robert H. Jackson, one of the brightest minds that democratic justice has known. As Attorney General of the United States, Supreme Court Justice, and architect of the prosecution at the epochal Nuremberg trial, he established the moral foundations of the role of the prosecutor in a modern state of law," Rama writes.
The Prime Minister continues by saying that Jackson's words remain a guide for anyone who believes that justice should be independent, but he sees the former US attorney's warnings as if they were written for us.
"His words spoken in the middle of the last century remain a guide for anyone who believes that justice should be independent, but never unaccountable; strong, but never blind to constitutional limits. And I share with you today Robert H. Jackson's historic speech, because the warnings of America's legendary attorney general, the man who wrote the modern ethic of the democratic prosecutor, ring true today," his post reads.
Rama further emphasizes that when the prosecutor seeks the man before the crime, justice dies, and when one power enters the territory of another, the democratic Constitution no longer breathes, but suffocates. Clearly, this is a message for the situation created after the GJKKO decision to suspend Belinda Balluku, but the government has taken the case to the Constitutional Court to challenge it.
"Robert H. Jackson taught the democratic world that when the prosecutor seeks the man before the crime, justice dies, and when one power enters the territory of another, the democratic Constitution no longer breathes, but suffocates. As for me personally, he has taught me something very inspiring to move forward, only forward, which none of my detractors understand and will never be able to understand, as fortunately most Albanians understand very well. This is his lapidary expression: "Power has never been more worthy than at the moment when it has agreed to submit to the judgment of an independent justice"", Rama further writes.
It seems that the head of government will not fully obey the decisions of the GJKKO, since in addition to choosing the legal path to overturn the first decision, he is already giving lectures with examples on how justice should be done.
