There should be no quarrel with the principle that a judge found to have entered the system on the basis of a fake or invalid degree must be shown the door. The judiciary, already struggling to retain public confidence, cannot afford even the whiff of academic fraud in its ranks. In that narrow sense, the removal of a judge over dubious credentials should be defended as a necessary, even cleansing, exercise. But principles do not operate in a vacuum. Timing and context matter.

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