Posted on 01/01/2024 11:53:50 AM PST by zeestephen
Israel's highest court has struck down a controversial judicial overhaul law enacted last year by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that would have limited the justices' power...The court struck down a law...that would have taken away the court's powers to abrogate government decisions it deems to be "unreasonable in the extreme."
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The GOP is absolutely rudderless. Run Joe Bliw and see what happens!
It reads like a comedy routine from Orwell.
They strike down a law to...keep them from striking down laws.
And we have to send billions and billions to this looney bin?
Rule by judiciary is about as ideal as rule by mullahs.
-fJRoberts- !
Hear, Hear!
Unelected oligarchy taking advantage of the Hamas opportunity.
If as they contend this law was the equivalent of a constitutional amendment they probably should have required a 2/3 vote of the legislature before enacting it. To put something like this forward with barely over 50% supporting it is just asking for trouble. Now it’s raising divisiveness among Israelis at a very inopportune time.
The left in Israel is like the left here in America, both hate their own country. The media in Israel hates BiBi just like the media in America hates Trump
Netanyahu should use 10/7 attacks and declare martial law.
It might be time to turn Israel into a military dictatorship (sort of like Pinochet).
So the high court struck down a law designed to stop the abuses of the high court? Sounds about right.
‘So the high court struck down a law designed to stop the abuses of the high court? Sounds about right.”
Be interesting to see if our Supreme Court uses Israel as an example to shoot down Democrat attempts to pack it. If so, then the Israel Leftists may just save our country instead.
Ironic, isn’t it?
OTOH, it goes to show the law was not an unreasonable move.
Good point.......
In the Israeli system.. it only takes more than 50% to change the constitution.. the odd thing is that this occurs so rarely it hasn’t been a problem for those who don’t want things to change.
No different than right here in the USA. We do not have 3 equal branches of power. The Judicial system overrides all. Ultimately nine people control the entire country.
I’m not familiar with the intricacies of Israel’s laws but it was my understanding that they don’t have a constitution per se rather they have something called “Basic Laws of Israel”. From Wikipedia:
“The Basic Laws of Israel (Hebrew: חוקי היסוד, romanized: Ḥukey HaYesod) are fourteen quasi-constitutional laws of the State of Israel, and some of them can only be changed by a supermajority vote in the Knesset (with varying requirements for different Basic Laws and sections).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Laws_of_Israel
So it’s out of my depth to speculate whether the enactment of this particular law might or might not violate the rules they already have in place. I guess they’ll just have to hash it out among themselves.
Wish they hadn’t gone public with this. I’m sure there are some liberals in power right now here in the US trying to figure out how to adapt that so they can over rule any court, anywhere in the country by political determination. The all powerful wizards of ah skit.
wy69
Israel has no Constitution. The Israeli Supreme Court granted itself globally unprecidented powers in the 1980s and 1990s in response to the Left losing a monopoly on legislative and executive power. Among these usurpations was the court basically declaring that it got to chose new members and could strike down laws, parts of laws, and even military actions. The reform law gives the Israeli Supreme Court quite a bit of power, but codifies and limits it. That is unacceptable to the ersatz krytocrats
Just leftist pukes doing what leftist pukes do best.
” The Israeli Supreme Court granted itself globally unprecidented powers in the 1980s and 1990s in response to the Left losing a monopoly on legislative and executive power. Among these usurpations was the court basically declaring that it got to chose new members and could strike down laws, parts of laws, and even military actions. The reform law gives the Israeli Supreme Court quite a bit of power, but codifies and limits it. That is unacceptable to the ersatz krytocrats “
The Sovereign is that which decides the State of Exception.
In this case they declared a State of Exception where they just proclaimed that nothing can be done to limit their power.
The Israeli Court just declared itself an irreversible dictatorship.
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