The Global Expansion of Judicial Power - Paperbackby C. Neal Tate (Editor), Torbjorn Vallinder (Editor) In Russia, as the confrontation over the constitutional distribution of authority raged, Boris Yeltsin's economic program regularly wended its way in and out of the Constitutional Court until Yeltsin finally suspended that court in the aftermath of his clash with the hard line parliament. In Europe, French and German legislators and executives now routinely alter desired policies in response to or