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Israel’s Judicial Reform Protests Explained — Part 2: The Boiling Point and Its Aftermath

Yael Iosilevich | Tel Aviv U. Faculty of Law, IL

April 23, 2023 12:04:18 pm

This is the second installment of a two-part feature. In Part 1, I have extensively described Israel’s governmental structure and the proposed reform. In Part 2, I will delve into the events that have taken place since the night of March 26, 2023: Massive anti-overhaul protests have been ongoing for an extended period of time. [...]

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Israel’s Judicial Reform Protests Explained — Part 1: The Spark

Yael Iosilevich | Tel Aviv U. Faculty of Law, IL

April 23, 2023 12:04:10 pm

Last month, protests in Israel challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms reached a boiling point. On March 26, after weeks of mounting pressure, the Security Minister, Yoav Gallant, took to national news to announce his opposition to the ongoing legislation. He declared that the proposed changes posed a danger to Israel’s national security [...]

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Supreme Court upheld discriminatory districting

On June 10, 1946, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld uneven congressional districting plans in Colegrove v. Green. The case challenged an Illinois districting plan that concentrated voters into large districts in the center of the state and did not balance for population. The Court reasoned that districting was a political question for the states to decide without judicial interference. This opinion was overturned less than 20 years later in Baker v. Carr, which set judicial standards for invoking political question doctrine. Learn more about political question doctrine from the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law.

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