Mid night at 9 o’clock my assistant call me come to office it’s an emergency. I am a judge in the supreme court of the W.DC United States. The courts priority is always to save the country and its citizens then yourself although we might be individualist in nature but when crises hits we are collective human force under one umbrella. When I went to the office my assistant, John, reported to me that Mr. Prime Minister, Martian assigned us to cover up the case. I was surprised by his words, gentle man I don’t know what you are talking about, I replied to Johan. Here was nothing on my table last evening I was leaving the office then how is it possible that I left such an important case, is it your fault? He said no sir it’s not when informed you before that call Mr. Primes Minster himself call me to inform you. I was wrecked by this info I don’t know what’s going on Johan?

By the way sir, Sectary of states William Davidson will reach out our office early in the morning at 8 o’clock to discuss this case with. Are you kidding with me, man? Johan with a gentle smile replied sir you’re my boss isn’t it somehow irrelevant? I replied with a glazing laughter, alright man lets meet with to discuss this blunder. By any chance cancel my all meetings for tomorrow. Johan; sir your meetings are adjusted as per the scheduled enjoy your meeting with Mr. Sectary, thank you Johan you can leave know if you want I get some rest for tomorrow I will sleep here on the couch, he wished to stay with me.

Anyhow let’s get some rest here I am tired will get soon at morning, have good night, Johan, you too, Sir!

It was 7:30 early morning when I was having my breakfast, Johan hastily entered to my office saying that Mr. Sectary William Davidson has been arrived.

Assh! Assh! You said he will be here at 8 o’clock; you are such a silly beast from last night giving me surprise by surprise unconventionally. Sir I am also surprised as you they told me we will be there at 8 O’clock but I don’t know what’s something up with him this much important to have meeting thirty minutes early, what shall I do sir?

Ahh! Alright just let him stay in the conference room I am changing will get there soon, also clean this mess from the table I am having such a bad day from last night!

Alright Sir, Johan!

Welcome Mr. Sectary to the Jurisdiction of justice, nice to meet you, have seat Sir.

 Nice to meet you too Mr. Chief Justice, how is up there, he replied.

Not bad sir, I replied smoothly, what’s up there this important bringing you early at the morning, sir?

Michel I know you are here since last night but it’s very important to be considered before the Election Day, you know we are nominated for our jurisdictions and something is up there in the way to our seats which will ruined the whole story of Presidential race if we didn’t covered it up!

Well sir I know something very important is up there but before considering your problem, Sir I think we need to make it sure a safe gatekeeping for our states democracy, anyways I’m  up here for you anytime let’s face the mess up there!

I hope that Mr. Martian had discussed this with you, right?

Not yet Sir, he informed Johan, my assistant!

Well let’s discuss this thing, Jessica I want to see that documents on chief’s table, hurry up we don’t have time to waste.

No worries I will review it I canceled my today’s meetings for this!

Thank you Mr. Justice!

Johan make sure the documents are well organized; alright sir, Johan replied.

I will be brief Mr. Justice, it’s about Mr. President’s company, and you know he owns Arma Production the top military industry in the United States of America, Mr. President Marko Gabriel had a deal with a Russian party last week although he were having presidential debates on the way up there, I was assigned for this deal to make it sure goes well, our special agent from CIA was sent to Russia for the exchange of documents, both of them are important for our country’s upcoming democracy if we didn’t do something democracy will die up there on the debate table, silent!

So what’s the problem, I asked?

Well the agent has been captured by the Russian intelligence service, no one is aware of this mess but the agent is messing from last week his family had filed a case against the company and Mr. President will be held responsible for this mess, he wants you to cover up this blunder.

I’ll be straight forward everyone in the front of this court is same whether it’s Mr. President, the agent’s family and he himself. I will review he documents will be up there as per the democratic way.

Mr. Justice we must deal with this in a transparent and organized democratic way, it’s about pluralist democratic state not holocaust states.

Well you owe my words but Mr. Sectary the mess up there isn’t about transparency and organized democratic way but polarization of nation’s interest, and I think, it’s polarizing my democracy with my own hands which we had made up there, this will create a much bigger mess up there than that of the mess in the Russia with the special agent, am I right sir?

Ahh! Mr. Justice you might be right but in my view polarization and decentralization sometimes saves the democracy, and it’s not only the administrative reconstruction of a democratic state but though a good political approach and process.

Yeah it’s good to think about the state first but an administration is the only way of linking people to the representatives up there in the Executive and Legislative jurisdiction of the State, isn’t it that I am the person who is held responsible for this linking of people with representative, would you think if I create another mess up here will still connect the people with the representatives, yeah it’s the presuppose criteria up here to delimit the people of the states from collective force, which means killing democracy by our own hands.

Mr. Chief Justice, there is no fixed recipe for the democracy some unwritten rules and approach can also make a good way out there for the people of the states.

Mr. Sectary you are right in this way but I think it must not be an isolated state from legitimacy and liberty, human dimensions and equal rights must be given an enough space through legitimacy and liberty, however, I think that democracies dies at the hand of not generals but those who are elected leaders although might be right but the perceptive may change the subject of the matter overheated.

Nevertheless, anyhow, it was a nice discussion with you here I hope after reviewing the documents might change your intentions let me know when you are ready; let’s have a cup of tea in the White House after the day of election and Mr. president inauguration, Mr. Sectary of the states replied.

Shall I drop you to the car Mr. Sectary? I asked.

No I fine, your assistant will accompany me to the gat, he replied.

Alright, Johan you may join him give me the files I will take care of it, it’s not organize right, yeah; Johan. No worries I will deal myself, report me back in the office when Mr. Sectary leaves the office.

All the evening and night I reviewed the documents but there was no way back except making the agent out of the way, although, I tried to make sure his safety but it would be somehow a buffer zone foe me between sates and the agent’s life. Drink on the table was only way to make self-esteem more boosted instead of no having enough rest this made me out of my mind sanity and insanity came overhead on the way to breakfast but the only thing I could do was to make a good decision not having enough drinks. Being a judge today I realized it’s not that easy as seemed.

During this early at the morning with the sunrise horizon, agent’s family were attacked by some unknown men out there in which Detective Marlon and Journalist Maria stated on the media that the attackers were the personal security men from the Arma Production Company, which grab the attention    of the state’s people to the case of agent and his disappearance, every media lens was on the agent which later on suppressed within days, but, Journalist Maria wasn’t going to give up she published her article in New york times, “Democracy under three umbrellas” in which she stated, “executive and legislative are powerful but divided by forbearance and toleration which had appealed judiciary to think twice and talk smatter before any decision, election is overhead on the way the only way to prevent domestic manipulation and foreign intervention is to focus on the debate. However, Mr. Chief Justice must make sure that democracy remains up the table despite of under table talks behind the will of personal interest.” This article was the only thing which balanced the power for instance but due to mass communication, misinformation ruined the flow of media and Arma Production was enabled to divert the attention.

The Arma Production Company’s Director in the investigation stated that they supplied the weapons to Russians and our Personal Security on the day of attack were delivering the weapons near the Russian embassy in which Russian Ambassador to the United States was held responsible for the attack on the agent’s family.

The democracy went back to my office with the same plane to ruin my breakfast and life, once again Johan hastily open the door and exhaustedly said that Mr. Prime Minister is on the way to office what should I do?

What about the meetings, shall we postpone sir?                                                      

 Well it’s the only way to deal with, go ahead we will talk later about this, let the Prime Minster reach here until I will finish m breakfast, but he just went straight to my office hesitated Mr. Chief Justice lets cooperate and bring some peace to the minds.

Have seat Mr. Prime Minister! I asked.

Johan get some water and make breakfast for Mr. Prime Minister, alright sir, Johan replied.

I don’t need breakfast; I need his mess to be covered up soon before the Election Day knocks our door.

Alright sir let’s talk about this, how can I help you? I asked.

Tell me how you can solve this? He replied.

I don’t have any solution at the moment it takes time, I replied back.

Let’s have a friendly discussion; I’ll be straight forward, Electoral are undermined by international intervention and domestic manipulation, right now in these days Judiciary and Media can play a vital role in international intervention and domestic manipulation, legitimate state is the one who enjoys the liberty and rights but it’s about our democracy and national security, if you give us your words we can bring back the old legitimate state. Political polarization can make this thwarted situation clam if we avoid forbearance instead. Where norms of forbearance are strong, politicians do not use their institutional prerogatives to the hilt, even if it is technically legal to do so, for such action could imperil the existing system. Institutional forbearance has its origins in a tradition older than democracy itself.

Well Mr. Prime Minister sorry to say but in the first place, I am not a politician but an administrator the way you deal me, reminds me of my old days when I was running for judicial complex General Election Silent! Silent!

Doors knocked, Johan entered, Mr. Defense Minister Arthur is waiting outside.

He was not in our meeting list and not I personally invited him, tell him busy in a meeting, I replied.

No, I invited him here, let him in, Mr. Prime Minister replied, he asked him for a seat and we continued the discussion.

Well, so I am not politician, I am an administrator, my job is to provide justice and equal rights, extremist demagogue emerge from time to time in a society but I am not that one who will compromise on nation’s interest.

Mr. Chief Justice it’s indeed about nation’s interest but with this we need our President in White House to bring back the democracy to the office, I know its concerning for you but we need to talk, Mr. Defense Minister asked me.

But these three couldn’t convinced me and I was on my way to cooperate with the journalist to provide Justice to the Agent’s family but before that the journalist was suppressed by involving her in sexual intimacy with the states’ cabinet junior civil servant due to which she was held responsible Channel’s TRP. The Director of the station filed a case against her for violating Channels’ reputation due to which she was terminated and excused of the violating personal property act of the states.

I was all alone to fight against this mess but on weekend when I was in my house waiting for my wife to still down our personal problem of divorce as she wanted, unknown caller rang my phone saying “that your wife will be held responsible for sexual and undisputed relation with the agent in Russia we will take her to Russia as the Russian intelligence will be looking for her and I hope that she is ringing the doorbell” the doorbell rang and I a hastily ran towards the door she was there, “hello, are you there, but the call was declined” I thought how the hell he knows that she will rang the door right now, I rushed to garden and asked the guards have a look around the rest if you see anything suspicious call me, also call 911 and special force to reach here as soon as possible.

They threatened me with this but I couldn’t give up due to my personal and individual characterization, however, I went to office next morning and the case was closed because the family member withdraw the case failed against the company, I went to see the family but it was her wife only, who was shot dead in a street fight and the killer was identified a Russian.

With the help of Russian they held President to the White House; nevertheless, the Government of the States went back to the holocaust and Authoritarian dilemma; however they made some major changes in the judiciary and excused me of bribes and corruption due to which I held on to resign from the post for personal sake, we were then attacked twice and during this period I lost my only wife in the assassination, the President attended the funeral and there I found an authoritarian standing in the front of me having democracy in his hands, all his supporter attended the funeral and I found that for my wife’s death bed, Defense minister is responsible but I was empty handed and ruined by my own people of the democratic State of America, “I found that it’s ultimately the people who are responsible for failure of democracy, once those who made a constitution are now demolished by the same those who took stand for this but one the body is change not the blood. A safe gatekeeping is ultimately in the hands of our people: that’s why; Democracy is Government of the people by the people for the people.

Democracy

A gripping political thriller set in the power corridors of Washington, Midnight Verdicts exposes how democracy can die behind closed doors. Follow the Chief Justice’s struggle as he uncovers corruption stretching from the White House to foreign powers. What starts as a missing agent’s case turns into a battle for the nation’s soul—where truth, justice, and personal loss collide. Explore how power, manipulation, and silence lead to the fall of a democracy that once promised freedom for all.
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In Midnight Verdicts, a Supreme Court Chief Justice of the United States finds himself entangled in a dark political conspiracy. Awoken by a midnight call, he’s dragged into a secret crisis involving the President’s arms company, a missing CIA agent captured by Russia, and political power plays threatening to topple American democracy. As the Justice attempts to balance law, ethics, and national security, he faces manipulation from government elites, media suppression, and threats against his own family. The story traces his personal downfall—from a respected judge to a man broken by systemic corruption and betrayal—showing how democracy crumbles not from foreign enemies, but from within.

Writer and founder of The Diary of Ahsan, where I explore politics, global affairs, philosophy, and modern society. My work focuses on critical thinking and encouraging open, reflective discussions on the complexities of the modern world. I believe in the power of words to inspire change and challenge conventional perspectives.

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