Israel strips Supreme Court of ability to block government decisions, defying nationwide protests

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Israeli government passes law to limit Supreme Court power, defying mass protests | CNN

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Israeli lawmakers on Monday passed a law stripping the Supreme Court of its power to block government decisions, the first part of a judicial overhaul that has sparked six months of street protests and criticism from the White House.

 

I can only imagine the protests will grow. Full on authoritarian move.

 

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Israeli lawmakers on Monday passed a law stripping the Supreme Court of its power to block government decisions, the first part of a planned judicial overhaul that has sparked six months of street protests as well as fierce criticism from the White House.

 

The controversial bill, which strips Israel's top judges of the power to declare government actions unreasonable, passed by a vote of 64-0. All members of the far-right governing coalition voted in favor of the bill, while all opposition lawmakers walked out of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, as the vote was taking place.

 

 

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Further information on the "reasonableness doctrine" which the the UK, Canada, and Australia use, but the US doesn't.

 

What is Israel's judicial overhaul and why are people protesting? | CNN

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Israel’s parliament on Monday passed the controversial “reasonableness” bill, the first major legislation in the government’s plan to weaken the judiciary, despite six months of protests and American pressure against the most significant shakeup to the court system since the country’s founding.

 

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And the Movement for Quality Government, an Israeli NGO, filed a petition with the Supreme Court, asking it to find the reasonableness law illegal on the grounds that it changes the basic structure of Israeli democracy, and requesting that it block implementation of the law until the court has ruled on it.

 

The Israel Bar Association is already preparing a legal challenge, the lawyers’ group said Sunday. Its executive, the Bar Council, approved the decision to petition the Supreme Court to cancel the reasonableness law if it passes on Monday, the Bar said.

 

The Bar also warned that it will shut down “as an act of protest against the anti-democratic legislative process,” the statement said. That means the Bar Association would not provide professional services to its members, and not that lawyers would go on strike.

 

Petitions for the Supreme Court to throw out the law, and to block its implementation until there is a court ruling, are expected to be filed when the court opens for business on Tuesday.

 

If the Supreme Court rules the unreasonableness law itself as unreasonable, invalidating the law that strips the court itself of its powers, this could trigger a constitutional crisis that sets the government and the court against each other.

 

 

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Stop giving Trump ideas 

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A reasonableness doctrine feels like a good idea when you don't have a written constitution. Heck, it probably isn't a bad idea even if you do. I can imagine US supreme court rulings being different if they didn't have to invent a right of privacy hidden in existing text and just say, it's reasonable to assume a right to privacy. Of course, it's also easy to imagine that going over pretty poorly in the US today. Just imagine what Judge Cannon would deem "reasonable."

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I’d take a reasonableness standard over the wholly made up revisionist history being masqueraded as constitutional law by the 6-3 chuds in our court