Tag: Judicial
The Wisconsin G.O.P.’s Looming Judicial Attack
In April, Janet Protasiewicz, a circuit-court judge in Milwaukee, was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, shifting its balance of power to a 4–3 liberal majority. Her victory holds enormous implications for abortion rights, labor unions, voting rights, and, perhaps, the integrity of the 2024 Presidential election. (In 2020, the court ruled, by a single vote, against former President Donald Trump’s demand to throw out more than two hundred thousand ballots from the state’s two most populous Democratic counties; Joe
Israeli minister pushes back against US, international criticism over judicial overhaul
FIRST ON FOX: In an interview with Fox News Digital, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, candidly discusses the criticism of the Biden administration and other nations in the Jewish state’s efforts to reform its judiciary.
Israel is engulfed in competing mass protests in support of and against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned overhaul of the judiciary. President Biden has assertively pushed back against Netanyahu’s efforts to rein in the power of the judiciary, sparking criticism from Republican
Billionaire Arthur Dantchik Parts With Group Behind Israel’s Judicial Overhaul
Arthur Dantchik, the American multibillionaire who provided millions to the think tank behind Israel’s highly polarizing judicial overhaul plan, announced on Friday that he would no longer donate to the organization.
Mr. Dantchik, 65, said in a statement that he would part ways with the Kohelet Policy Forum, which conceived a series of measures to transform Israel’s judicial system. The proposal has divided the country and led to weeks of protests. Critics of the plan say it will eliminate crucial
Israel’s Justice Minister Is the Brains Behind Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul
When Israeli lawmakers passed a deeply contentious law last Monday to weaken the Supreme Court, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not linger in the voting chamber to celebrate.
Instead, the justice minister, Yariv Levin, an architect of the legislation, stayed to pose for selfies with fellow lawmakers as Mr. Netanyahu walked somberly from the room. Mr. Levin, not the prime minister, made a celebratory speech from the podium.
“We have made the first step in the important historic process of
Israel’s Judicial Reform and Protests
Israel in the past six months has felt like a madhouse, a political protest the size of New Jersey, an unending traffic jam, a lab for bad ideas, a glimpse of the future of Western democracy in the social-media age. It has also been a classroom, even for those of us who think we’re experts. I’ve lived and written here for nearly 30 years. But as I stood among thousands of other protesters outside the Knesset on Monday, the midday
Defiant Netanyahu Defends Judicial Overhaul in Israel
Just days after his coalition passed the first stage of a judicial overhaul plan that has divided the country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel struck a defiant tone, saying he hoped to reinstate a key ally convicted of a felony and declining to say if he would respect a Supreme Court ruling on the plan if it did not go his way.
In a flurry of interviews with U.S. broadcasters on Thursday, Mr. Netanyahu sought to play down concerns
No Amount of Prudence Will Appease Opponents of Israel’s Judicial Reform
Those who believe that objections to the reforms are based simply on a preference for methodical change are ignoring the glaring evidence.
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Some Israelis Plan to Leave Amid Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul
Naama Levin and her partner had always dreamed about taking a break from Israel and going on an extended vacation abroad. But they did not start making concrete plans until late last year, when Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power and formed a coalition with extreme right-wing and religiously conservative partners.
“We didn’t have the nerve to make the move; we had to muster it,” said Ms. Levin, 46, who has two young children and has lived in Tel Aviv for
Israel’s Supreme Court to Hear Case Against Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul
Israel’s Supreme Court said Wednesday that it would hear petitions by the opposition in September to strike down the first part of the government’s contentious plan to weaken the country’s judiciary, which passed earlier this week.
Defying widespread protests and warnings from key allies such as the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition enacted the law on Monday, aimed at curbing the Supreme Court’s longstanding practice of overruling some policies and appointments made by the national government on grounds
Israeli Reservists Threaten to Quit Over Judicial Overhaul
More than 11,000 Israelis in the military reserve said last week they’d resign if the government’s judicial overhaul went ahead. But now that the law has been passed, military officials and experts say it will take time to test the sincerity of those warnings.
The military says that the vast majority of those who participated in the joint declarations last week have yet to either send in their resignations or formally turn down direct call-ups. Since most reservists only get