Absurdities that Cannot Be

2 More Cases where Israel's Supreme Court Completely Overreached

As I wrote the first draft of this paragraph, hundreds of thousands of Israelis had walked off their jobs and hit the streets to demonstrate over the Likud-backed judicial reform bills that are making their way through the Knesset (Israeli parliament). Some demonstrated for the reform, some against. They brought the country to a standstill; the airport was closed to outgoing flights. Hospitals turned away all but emergency patients. A besieged Prime Minister Netanyahu announced the Knesset would postpone further consideration of the bills until after the Passover break. Although that defused the crisis for the time being, it remains to be seen how things will play out in the long term.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that consideration of judicial reform will be postponed

In my previous post, Destroying the Rule of Law in order to Save it, I argued that whatever you think of the proposed reform, the problem that it is intended to address is very real: the Israeli Supreme Court is out of control. In that post, I discussed four cases in which the court arrogated nearly dictatorial powers to itself, which it then used to decimate the separation of powers and usurp the legislative and executive branches’ authority.

But wait, there’s more. Here are:

2 More Cases where Israel's Supreme Court Completely Overreached