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Israel’s political system spent much of the year grappling with a long overdue effort to restore some checks and balances on the judiciary. After months of rioting, hysterical protests and attacks on the military, the only thing that passed was a law that prevented the supreme court from overruling laws passed by a democratically elected government because it thought them “unreasonable”.
Predictably, the Supreme Court rejected any limitations on its otherwise unlimited power and announced that it retains total power over the people.
So much for the ‘reasonableness’.
The High Court of Justice on Monday struck down the basic law for repealing the reasonableness clause by a majority of 8 justices who opposed the law against 7 who supported it…
The High Court also approved its own power to strike down basic laws as a general matter by a vote of 12-3.
How nice of it.
Outgoing President of the High Court, Esther Hayut, was among the majority who struck the law. In the draft of the verdict, Hayut wrote that “the Basic Law constitutes a significant deviation from ‘the evolving constitution’ and therefore must be accepted with broad consensus and not by a narrow coalition majority.”
There’s no constitution, evolving or otherwise, only the whims of leftists like Hayut and coalition governments depend on narrow coalition majorities. What Hayut is really saying is that elected officials could never pass a law limiting her power.
Justice Ofer Grosskopf joined Hayut’s opinion and stated, “The demand to apply the law to those at the top of the pyramid is at the heart of our rules, no person is exempt from the rule of law.”
Except the Supreme Court. But by the rule of law, the justices mean their rule. Their whole point is that there is no rule of law, only judicial tyranny divorced from the Constitution or anything democratic, legal or enduring.
That’s the whole point of justices being able to strike down laws based on a standard as vague as “meaningfulness”.
Some people would say that Israel has bigger problems right now. Perhaps. That was always true. But having a leftist judiciary in control of political decisions and military ones crippled Israel’s ability to fight Islamic terrorism for decades. The current coalition sacrificed a great deal to place the lightest limitation on the judicial jackboot with the expected outcome.
The judiciary will maintain its totalitarian rule and cripple any response to Islamic terrorism. Especially any responses that depend on the legal system.
This is why Soros and his ilk have invested a lot of money in building up an empire of nonprofits that can wage constant lawfare.
Different sides may disagree on what is “reasonable”. Vague, ambiguous term..
That’s a weird thing for the left to hang their hat on, when they’re so unreasonable.
The obscene timing of the “decision”, so concoctedly close at 8-7, stinks of
day-after scenario control.
God help us.
God protect us.
It’s sickening.
There are accusations that the pro-court factions may have sabotaged intelligence before Oct. 7. I don’t know if they are plausible, but the people on that side are not above such things.
They probably participated in the 10-7 atrocities.
Israel is fighting one set of terrorists in actual combat while being assaulted by an equally dangerous, but definitely less rapey group from within! This is going to be interesting! How can a COURT determine it is the SUPREME POWER when it’s POWER supposedly comes FROM the other areas of Government? THIS is why the DEMOcrats (HYPOCRITE) party desperately demands to control OUR SC!! In Israel’s case they may have to simply ARREST the SC “Justices” on grounds of INSURRECTION!
The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that the rule of the people and separation of powers are unreasonable.
It seems to me that since Israel never adopted a fixed constitution (a grave mistake), it should either do so now (with suitable restrictions on the powers of all branches of its government, including the courts), or else rely on the principle that in a parliamentary system (which not a good one since the same majority controls both legislative and executive powers), any act passed by the Knesset that is not inconsistent with natural law (the natural rights of Man) must be considered valid. Therefore the act limiting the power of the Supreme Court is valid and should be enforced against the Court by the Executive Power.
Assuming there is no power of impeachment (since there is no constitution), the government should remove the 8 justices in the majority from office.
Yes, remove those power mad traitors from office and challenge them to do something about it. “Justices,” my ass. Netanyahu and the Knesset should disregard every power grab ruling the court passes. The Mossad or one of the other multiple anti-jihadi terrorist agencies should exert extreme prejudice against those human rodents.
In my opinion.