The email landed without warning, like a silent explosion that left devastation without noise. In a single morning, six judges were erased from the bench, their names gone before most people had finished their first cup of coffee. Nearly 6,000 human beings—families, children, asylum seekers—were instantly suspended in a state of terror and uncertainty. There was no scandal announced, no public hearing, no explanation offered. Just a digital notice and the sudden disappearance of authority figures whose decisions shaped lives. Careers stalled, futures froze, and legal claims dissolved into an administrative fog, all orbiting one dangerous, unspoken belief about who deserves protection and who does not.
