In Historic Hearing, Most of Israel's Supreme Court Justices Rebuke Netanyahu's Key Judicial Coup Bill

In High Court’s hearing on first judicial coup law, Justice Isaac Amit, who is slated to become court president in October, said he 'is not concerned about extreme scenarios,' adding that 'democracy doesn't die from a few strong blows; democracy dies in a series of small steps'

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Most of Israel's Supreme Court justices were harshly critical of the law abolishing the reasonableness doctrine during Tuesday’s lengthy hearing on the law’s constitutionality.

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