A retired President of a German state court has said that Angela Merkel’s immigration policy is illegal and unconstitutional, and has accused the German chancellor of building her own personal empire at the expense of German democracy. Judge Michael Bertrams says that Merkel had “gone it alone” in allowing “hundreds of thousands of refugees into the country“. Breitbart.com reports: Judge Bertrams may have seen the worst excesses of this policy, as his court sat in the same German state which was rocked this month by the new year’s migrant rape crisis, which was first reported in its largest city Cologne. Chancellor Merkel’s approach to migration is so far removed from the will of people people there are now questions over whether her actions are legitimate, questions the judge in an interview with Die Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. German daily Die Welt reports the judge has referred to Mrs. Merkel as creating a “high-handed Chancellor-democracy”, an obvious reference to the power-grabbing German Chancellor of 1933, Adolf Hitler. Judge Bertrams wrote: “Quite apart from the actions of the Chancellor, it raises the constitutional issue of whether she was legitimately able to act alone at all. In our representative democracy all essential decisions – especially those with impact on [...]