Legal expert Eugene Kontorovich, who has championed many of Israel’s judicial reform proposals, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that it is time to reverse the “power grab” through which judges seized sweeping authority in the 1990s.
Legal expert Professor Eugene Kontorovich, who has championed many of Israel’s controversial judicial reform proposals, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Sunday that it is time to reverse the “power grab” through which judges seized sweeping authority in the 1990s.
Kontorovich has called for the Israeli judiciary to reflect the U.S. system, in which candidates for the Supreme Court are nominated by the president and voted for by the Senate. There is stiff opposition. On Saturday night, some 80,000 people came out in Tel Aviv to protest the government reforms,by left-wing political leaders calling the democratically elected government “illegitimate,” and accusing it of carrying out a “coup.”
While Dershowitz stopped short of echoing claims by leaders of the opposition that the proposed reforms threaten Israel’s democracy, he said they would threaten liberties and civil rights in addition to making it harder to defend Israel in international courts. “The current system has judges striking down law with no recourse because they’re simply unreasonable,” he said.Another of Yariv’s proposals that has been criticized by Dershowitz and the left-wing opposition is the Override Clause, which would allow the Knesset to re-legislate laws that the Supreme Court had struck down, pending a simple 61-seat majority .
He went on to explain that Israel’s separation of powers is manifest in its multiparty system. “In the U.S., when one party controls both houses and the president, which is close to half the time, that [party is] unstoppable and extremely powerful, but you don’t see special rules in that case, [there is not] suddenly a different way of picking Supreme Court justices just to make it not completely political,” he said.
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