Netanyahu’s Judicial Reform Doesn’t Go Far Enough

WSJ ^ | Deb 26, 2023 | Michael B Mukasey

[Conservat1]

Israel should establish rules of standing and recognize the distinction between policy and law.

Judges and attorneys general throughout the world—I’ve served in both capacities in the U.S.—wield substantial authority. In any sound legal system, such authority is subject to clear, objective limits. That seemingly unexceptional principle might help clarify the debate roiling Israel over the country’s Supreme Court justices and attorney general, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposals to change that authority and the method of selecting justices.

[one guy in new jersey]

Mukasey, who are you kidding.

If not all, than most judges in this country freely decide cases or appeals based on what they individually (or as members in good standing of the governing elite) consider good policy, or, at the very least, what they see as the “right” way the case should turn out, duly-promulgated laws and often times even judicial precedent be damned. It is the rare judge that even exercises judicial restraint unless as part of a political ploy to deny certain litigants they don’t prefer access to justice.

[SJackson]

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