State Sovereignty in Terms of the Judicial Power: Is the Judicial Power Sovereign?

The article presents the author's concept of judicial sovereignty, which is based on an analysis of the constitutional characteristics of the sovereign principles of the judiciary, which include: the increased, special nature of the legitimacy of the judiciary; the unity of the judicial system of the Russian Federation, ensuring the unity of judicial sovereignty; the independence of the court; the jurisdictional universalism of the court, ensured by the exercise of judicial power in various constitutional forms of legal proceedings, by combining universalization with differentiation; judicial and jurisdictional discretion, including the possibilities of judicial law-making and the formation of judicial law. In this regard, the concept of judicial sovereignty is being implemented both in law enforcement, judicial and jurisdictional activities, and in judicial rulemaking. At the same time, the role of the judiciary in the development of the modern doctrine of state sovereignty is analyzed, bearing in mind, first of all, the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation as the conceptual basis of national judicial jurisprudence, which is of particular relevance in modern conditions of the global crisis of international relations and the need to strengthen the sovereignty of Russia in all forms of its manifestation.