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« Reply #25 on: January 08, 2023, 01:12:02 AM »

Whats preventing the court from striking down this law?

No one is really sure where the Court's power ends and the Knesset's begins. It's basically a constitutional crisis without a constitution.
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« Reply #26 on: January 08, 2023, 01:22:19 AM »

Whats preventing the court from striking down this law?
It's a basic law, i.e., a constitutional norm. There is a jurisprudential problem with judicial review of the constitution, and although the SC ruled 2 years ago that it has, de jure, the authority to strike down constitutional amendment that go against the secondary constituent authority granted to the Knesset, this step is rather radical.
As I see it, the SC will strike it down as this is precisely the type of norm-making that is considered unconstitutional constitutional amendment. However, the Knesset will refuse to accept it and the justices would have to collectively resign.
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« Reply #27 on: January 08, 2023, 05:39:32 AM »

If Israel ever does genuinely become an authoritarian theocracy, why should anyone else support it?

(as opposed, perhaps, to the internal opposition that would inevitably develop as a result)
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« Reply #28 on: January 08, 2023, 11:27:15 AM »

Even Trump defender Alan Dershowitz can't defend this:

Alan Dershowitz, defender of Israel, opposes legal overhaul
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« Reply #29 on: January 08, 2023, 01:36:10 PM »

Of course a lawyer would get triggered by this.
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« Reply #30 on: January 08, 2023, 09:43:04 PM »

If I were in the opposition I’d try to drive a wedge between the Bibi establishment and the far-right elements of the government. Look at how unstable the Republican house majority is.
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