MORE ON THE GERMAN IMMIGRATION DECISION The Frankfurter Rundschau, which tends to lean left, argues that the Court did the political culture a favor with its decision, for similar reasons to the ones I noted in my last post. The article is titled "Recht so!"("THAT'S RIGHT!!"). FR's argument is that lack of accountability is endemic in German political culture nowadays, and the Court was right to make a "no" vote mean "no." The FR seems to be putting a somewhat more critical spin on the decision than I had thought of: if the parties on the right are going to stir up resentment against foreigners, they shouldn't be able to have the Court provide them with cover in the immigration issue. I'm not sure about this, but the implication is that the result in the Bundesrat was not entirely unintended by the CDU. But an article in the Tagesspiegel about Schoenbohm's apparently genuine celebration of the Court's decision ("He Would Have Loved to Shout 'Yoo-hoo'") casts doubt on the more extreme version of the "cover for the right" theory. The FR's broader point stands, however.