Lucianne.com News Forum - Netanyahu announces pause to judicial overhaul plan after days of strikes that threatened to paralyze economy CBS News, by Staff
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Dreadnought"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday he will delay the
controversial judicial reforms that have drawn unprecedented opposition in the country...
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thethirdruffian 3/27/2023 2:11:01 PM (No. 1434698)
These are the reforms. If you can convince me one is really "undemocratic" or "fascist" as the media keeps saying, I'll give you a dollar:
1. The Supreme Court in Israel is more of a legislative body than in the USA. It is not as strictly limited by the “case or controversy” limitation, but can act on its own, and basically veto any law. It uses this power very aggressively to act as the un-elected head of government in Israel and in a very Leftist manner, as they are all Leftists. The first proposal is to allow the people’s democratically-elected representatives overrule the un-elected judge’s edicts.
2. Related to number one, the Supreme Court created a rule that it could override legislation and laws based on whether the body considered it “reasonable”. So it’s not like checking against the text of the the First Amendment and saying “nope, Constitution says you can’t do that.” It’s a judicially-created rule that says “if we judges would legislate in a different manner, we’ll do so”.
3. Judges are appointed in Israel by a private cabal of the bar association, with little input by the the elected officials. The reform will change this so the elected officials will have the final say on judges.
4. The actual cabinet officials don’t really run their department. Instead, they HAVE to do what un-appointed, un-fireable, lawyers in the departments say. These lifetime government hacks are all Leftists. So, this allows elected officials actually govern, and not be figureheads to the actual puppet leaders.
