German constitutional lawyer Volker Boehme-Neßler: “What we experienced during the Corona crisis was not worthy of a constitutional state”

“During Corona we saw the most extreme restrictions on fundamental rights that have ever existed in the Federal Republic. The judges should have looked very critically and very closely at what the state institutions were doing. They should have drawn red lines of freedom. That would have sent a signal to the other courts. Instead, they uncritically stamped almost all government measures with constitutionality.” – these are the words used by constitutional lawyer Volker Boehme-Neßler in an interview with NachDenkSeiten. He sharply criticizes the Federal Constitutional Court, but also the judiciary in general with regard to “Corona jurisprudence”. Boehme-Neßler speaks of a “betrayal of the idea of ​​the constitutional state.” The legal scholar also believes that the vaccination requirement in the Bundeswehr is “unconstitutional” and calls for the judiciary to be examined.