Basically.
The Israeli system requires that a government will have a simple majority to assume power after an election.
So by giving the Kneset the ability to ignore the supreme court with a simple majority basically strips the court of its power.
He's also pushing for politicians to have majority power in the selection of judges, right now they do not have large influence on the process.
He's also trying to make the process by which the supreme court can bring legislation to question harder, by requiring a majority of 12 out of 15 judges to initiate.
In some ways it brings the system somewhere closer to the usa system, but the big difference is that the ruling government always has majority of the house in Israel.
EagleRise t1_jb59oe1 wrote
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Basically. The Israeli system requires that a government will have a simple majority to assume power after an election. So by giving the Kneset the ability to ignore the supreme court with a simple majority basically strips the court of its power.
He's also pushing for politicians to have majority power in the selection of judges, right now they do not have large influence on the process.
He's also trying to make the process by which the supreme court can bring legislation to question harder, by requiring a majority of 12 out of 15 judges to initiate.
In some ways it brings the system somewhere closer to the usa system, but the big difference is that the ruling government always has majority of the house in Israel.