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Legal analysts speculate that if Israel's Supreme Court does not intervene and annul the amendment, it risks legitimising the ruling government coalition's bid to upend the courts' standing further.
When Gali Baharav-Miara was appointed Israel’s attorney general two years ago, she broke a glass ceiling as the first woman in the job—but barely anybody in the country had heard of her. Now she finds herself at the center of a heated fight over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed overhaul of the judiciary, the country’s most brutal internal…
The court could strike down the law passed on Monday that seeks to curb its power. Or it might narrowly interpret it. Or it might simply put off any decision.
From the blog of Peter Buchsbaum at The Times of Israel
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