On February 26, 2026, India’s Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance of a grade 8 NCERT textbook chapter titled “Corruption in the Judiciary,” directing seizure of all circulating copies and imposing a blanket publication ban. Two weeks later, on March 11, having recalled 82,440 copies, the Court escalated by ordering: the disassociation of three academics who drafted the chapter from all public educational work without a hearing; that any future curriculum on the judiciary must be approved by a committee including a former judge collaborating with the National Judicial Academy (NJA); and that the government must identify social media accounts that discussed the orders irresponsibly. This blog argues that when courts control what may be taught about the courts, they violate the nemo judex in causa sua principle (no one may judge their own cause), undermining democratic legitimacy.