Timeline for What exactly are the negative consequences of the Israeli Supreme Court reform, as per the protestors?
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| Aug 24, 2023 at 1:31 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | +1. Criticism is warranted in the other direction. Like shortcomings in the way the Israeli Supreme Court is set up. Does it mean that all notions of judicial review need to be chucked out? For example, to check if laws being passed correspond to Israel's obligation wrt the UN Declaration of Human Rights? W.o. a written constitution, is the Basic Law system sufficiently protected from power grabs by very narrow interest groups? Hard Qs, but if I were Israeli, I sure wouldn't trust Bibi and Shas to act in the country's best interests either. By US standards this is a power grab. | |
| Aug 23, 2023 at 21:39 | comment | added | JonathanReez | @dan04 unfortunately the US Supreme Court likewise made a mockery of the constitution at times - Roe vs Wade being one embarrassing example. But at least they’re more obviously wrong when they do invoke personal beliefs into their rulings. | |
| Aug 23, 2023 at 20:51 | comment | added | dan04 | This parallels similar controversies in the US over the power of judicial review and specific Supreme Court decisions. A major difference being that the US has a written constitution which (in theory) constrains which laws are allowed or not, whereas Israel's "reasonableness" standard is just arbitrary. | |
| Aug 23, 2023 at 20:26 | history | edited | Jeffiekins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added a little explanation to the 1st paragraph.
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| S Aug 23, 2023 at 20:21 | history | answered | Jeffiekins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |