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Israel's judicial reform; Fixing the US immigration system; Inside Vladimir Putin's mind

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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The Supreme Court in Israel Has Arrogated to Its Powers

There was never in the Constitution this power of judicial review where the court can essentially decide whether something is constitutional or not. Israel kind of joins with that transformation and constitutional revolution in the 1990s when the Israeli Supreme Court declared that the basic laws were like a constitution. And what Netanyahu's government is trying to do by curbing the power of the judiciary seems to me quite similar to what some of these populist governments in Eastern Europe are doing.

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