That fits: The Federal Constitutional Court deals with the role of the constitutional organs, including its own.
This self-assurance never hurts, but it is not l'art pour l'art, but is part of everyday life under the rule of law.
At the request of the AfD, the court had to take a position on its meetings with other constitutional bodies.
Karlsruhe is in fact no ordinary court, blocking contact cannot be the solution.
The judges are not biased, but the impartial observer is entitled to a convincing answer.
The Constitutional Court must also give an answer to the behavior of the Chancellor, who demanded from distant South Africa that the democratic election of FDP politician Kemmerich as Prime Minister of the still suffering state of Thuringia, which was carried out with AfD votes, should be reversed.
Understandable and plausible that she wanted to give an answer to the world, as it were.
Of course, the choice of her words, which Angela Merkel usually weighs carefully, was surprising.
If one applies the Karlsruhe standards to government action, questions do indeed arise.
There is no question that the Chancellor is still a CDU politician and is allowed to express herself very clearly in this capacity.
She could easily have made it clear that she is not speaking as Chancellor, even if that may seem artificial.
The office bears the consequences of their appearance.