Israel's Constitutional Moment
The Dispatch Podcast
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The Government's Proposal to Reform the Supreme Court
Israel has no legal ballast for civil liberties. There's no Bill of Rights, there is no freedom of expression or the press. The Israeli parliament changes the rules of our democracy whenever it happens to be inconvenient how the rules work. We have changed those constitutional basic laws 23 times in the last five years. If you vote for Trump, imagine the Biden White House being able to amend the constitution with a simple vote when it controls the house by definition because it's a parliamentary system.
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