Review & Outlook

Thailand's Aristocratic Dead-Enders

The royalists who can't win an election stage a judicial coup.

May 7, 2014 12:52 p.m. ET

Royalist forces struck another blow against Thai democracy Wednesday when the country's Constitutional Court staged a judicial coup and removed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office. Her supposed crime: having impure motives when she transferred a bureaucrat three years ago. For the third time in a decade, this unaccountable institution controlled by the aristocracy has removed an elected leader for dubious reasons.

The justices' meddling rewards the bad behavior of the ironically named royalist Democrat Party....

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