{"id":12733,"date":"2024-01-24T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2024-01-24T15:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:58:38","slug":"israels-supreme-court-just-overturned-netanyahus-pre-war-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12733","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Supreme Court just overturned Netanyahu\u2019s pre-war power grab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The ruling, released on New Year\u2019s Day, annulled the single biggest piece of legislation<\/a> passed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>\u2019s far-right coalition. The Court\u2019s reasoning fundamentally changes the balance of power in Israel\u2019s democracy \u2014 so fundamentally, in fact, that some members of the elected government have vowed not to abide by it. If that happens, Israel<\/a> will be thrown into a full-blown constitutional crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About a year ago, Netanyahu proposed a sweeping overhaul to Israel\u2019s judiciary \u2014 one that would, in effect, put it under his personal thumb. Mass protests succeeded in blocking most of the overhaul. Only one plank<\/a> \u2014 curtailing the power of the courts to overturn government policy \u2014 actually became law, an amendment to Israel\u2019s \u201cBasic Laws,\u201d the closest thing the country has to a constitution. This is the law that was just overturned by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In doing so, the Court came to two key conclusions. First, that it has the general power to overturn Basic Laws \u2014 a power it had never deployed before. Second, that this new Basic Law was threatening enough to Israeli democracy that the court was justified in overruling it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In peacetime, a ruling this epochal would transform Israeli politics, reorienting everything around the question of the court\u2019s new claim to power and (plausible) claim to be saving Israeli democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with the country enmeshed in an existential war in Gaza<\/a>, the domestic reaction to the court\u2019s ruling is far less explosive than it would be otherwise. Whether this lasts \u2014 or whether Israel erupts into a domestic political crisis to match its current international peril \u2014 is far from clear.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/2024\/1\/3\/24022467\/israel-supreme-court-judicial-overhaul-reasonableness-basic-law-overturn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The ruling, released on New Year\u2019s Day, annulled the single biggest piece of legislation passed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s far-right coalition. The Court\u2019s reasoning fundamentally changes the balance of power in Israel\u2019s democracy \u2014 so fundamentally, in fact, that some members of the elected government have vowed not to abide by it. If that happens, Israel will be thrown into a full-blown constitutional crisis.
\nAbout a year ago, Netanyahu proposed a sweeping overhaul to Israel\u2019s judiciary \u2014 one that would, in effect, put it under his personal thumb. Mass protests succeeded in blocking most of the overhaul. Only one plank \u2014 curtailing the power of the courts to overturn government policy \u2014 actually became law, an amendment to Israel\u2019s \u201cBasic Laws,\u201d the closest thing the country has to a constitution. This is the law that was just overturned by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

In doing so, the Court came to two key conclusions. First, that it has the general power to overturn Basic Laws \u2014 a power it had never deployed before. Second, that this new Basic Law was threatening enough to Israeli democracy that the court was justified in overruling it.<\/p>\n

In peacetime, a ruling this epochal would transform Israeli politics, reorienting everything around the question of the court\u2019s new claim to power and (plausible) claim to be saving Israeli democracy.<\/p>\n

But with the country enmeshed in an existential war in Gaza, the domestic reaction to the court\u2019s ruling is far less explosive than it would be otherwise. Whether this lasts \u2014 or whether Israel erupts into a domestic political crisis to match its current international peril \u2014 is far from clear.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/2024\/1\/3\/24022467\/israel-supreme-court-judicial-overhaul-reasonableness-basic-law-overturn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,194,1213,196,528],"class_list":["post-12733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-israel","tag-judiciary","tag-netanyahu","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12734,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions\/12734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}