“He that is saying to the wicked one: ‘You are righteous,’ the peoples will execrate him, national groups will denounce him.

Proverbs 24:24-26.

If a judge yielded to the pressures of bribery or nepotism and declared the wicked one righteous, others would see him as unfit for his position. Why, even members of Gentile “national groups” who heard of such judicial malfeasance would react with disdain!