Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, passed a law late on Thursday to make it easier to remove “enemies of the constitution” from the judiciary. The legal amendment extends the deadlines for so-called judicial impeachment. With this instrument, state parliaments or the Bundestag can request the Federal Constitutional Court to transfer a judge if there are doubts about the judge’s loyalty to the constitution. Application to transfer a judge to another office or into retirement previously had to be submitted no later than two years after the alleged misconduct. This period has now…