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@aaron i just fled israel. No surprise.
From what I can gather the government is trying to limit their court’s ability to strike down laws.
Israel doesn’t have a formal written constitution so instead of ruling that a law isn’t constitutional, they have been using a standard of “unreasonable”. I’m not enough of an Israeli legal expert to know exactly what that means but this law would stop this practice or at least greatly curtail it.
To call it an authoritarian move is probably a bit hyperbolic. Israel has a parliamentary system with tiny parties that have to form coalitions to form a government. No one party ever has enough seats on their own. So the breakdown of the coalition and the subsequent election would act as a check. But that’s just an outsider’s opinion on that so feel free to take it with however much salt as you like.
Israel doesn’t have a formal written constitution so instead of ruling that a law isn’t constitutional, they have been using a standard of “unreasonable”. I’m not enough of an Israeli legal expert to know exactly what that means but this law would stop this practice or at least greatly curtail it.
To call it an authoritarian move is probably a bit hyperbolic. Israel has a parliamentary system with tiny parties that have to form coalitions to form a government. No one party ever has enough seats on their own. So the breakdown of the coalition and the subsequent election would act as a check. But that’s just an outsider’s opinion on that so feel free to take it with however much salt as you like.
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Yes there are two sides... the courts want to make it so politicians in congress can override the supreme court (which is sorta how it works int he USA).. oetherw want to make sure the supreme court get final say...
Both are "authoritative" because no matter what you pick one side gets final say and authority... int he USA we have a consitituion so the final authority comes int he form of amendments to the consitution, which means congress, but it also means with 2/3 support of congress.
Yup there is that too, though it haw never been approved in that fashion.
or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds
of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either
Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified
by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three
fourths thereof,