Latest / The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen on the Israeli Supreme Court's Bombshell
The Israeli Supreme Court—in the middle of the war in Gaza—handed down a decision that amounts to a kind of death blow to Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's judicial reform project. Before October 7, judicial overhaul was all that anybody was talking about in Israeli politics—you know, a five-part legislative plan to assert parliamentary control over the judiciary and reduce Israel's checks and balances into a more majoritarian system. Only one part of it passed, and the Supreme Court has now struck it down in a decision that sharply divided the court on some questions and reflected significant…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.