Galactic Supreme Court

New Judicial Power
The Galactic Supreme Court was the highest power of the judicial branch in the Galactic Republic, and was gifted heavy reforms during the Chancellorship of Mon Mothma from 19 BBY through to Ducau Zaoku's tenure up until 9 BBY.

The Galactic Court as many refer to it as, didn't have much judicial power in the Republic ever since the Ruusan Reformation. The Senate held most of the Republic's power up until 22 BBY where Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious was slowly taking its power for his evil gain. Once Palpatine was arrested, and Mothma began settling the panic from the Clone Wars; she encountered a major issue. The Republic government was filled with horribly corrupt politicians that have done wrong deeds and needed to be punished for it, many of them being Senators. Mothma used all of her executive power to reform the Galactic Court promising that it would help further crackdown on the remaining Separatist leaders. The Senate agreed, allowing only small reformations to take place. The Court could hold its own trials without Senate intervention, but its panel of Seven Justices needed to be composed of at least four Senators. Mothma allowed this, for it was some form of good change.

As the years progressed, and after Mothma's assassination, Ducau took it as his responsibility to find the assailant. The Senate was still in disarray, and gave the cold truth to the senators about their horrendous behavior. Their erratic behavior is what helped fuel the Clone Wars, and a majority of the delegates agreed. They then allowed the Galactic Court to not have any senators as Justices. By 11 BBY, the Galactic Supreme Court managed to take all forms of judicial review from the Senate. The Senate only had the power to interrogate the Chancellor if there was to be an indictment trial.

Gundao Syndicate Crisis
The rise of the Gundao Syndicate proved to be a worthy task for the Galactic Court, for countless Syndicate leaders and masterminds were captured and delivered to the Court for a trial. Senators used this as a pretext to overwhelm the Galactic Court; even bribing citizens of Coruscant to act as Gundao members just to flood the quota of the Galactic Court. Thousands of accounts and manuscripts of certain evidence were written by power-hungry senators to just clog the judicial process of the Galactic Court.

Essentially, the Court started to send people to prison without any trial or would exile them to the Unknown Regions of the Galaxy just to ease the number of indicted people. The Senate used this as a pretext in order to regain their judicial power so the Senate could act as the primary governing force of the Galaxy once again.