http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200603-133733-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-faceless-court/ The Faceless Court Zhang, Angela Huyue eng 2020-06-03 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 BVerfG ECJ Judicial Selection Process Procedural Law PSPP Ultra Vires Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The authority of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the veritable Supreme Court of the European Union, has come under attack. In May 2020, the German Constitutional Court challenged the authority of the ECJ by holding that the Luxembourg court had acted beyond its mandate by allowing the quantitative easing measures issued by the European Central Bank. While many remain fixated on how the German decision has triggered the EU constitutional crisis, the public may have overlooked a more fundamental problem that has long beset the legitimacy of the ECJ—its own institutional failures.