Tag: Supreme Court of Israel

Meanwhile, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut came out with her own disturbing statement.

"...your silence in the face of the current defiance may be interpreted as a biased policy, not to mention hypocrisy."

The four retiring justices belonged to the liberal faction on the court.

"Mrs. Hayut: if you were a decent woman you would suggest ... that there be some Sephardic, Haredi, and Ethiopian judges."

Smotrich is not wrong on the facts, and then some.

Only a third of the 24 candidates are women, one candidate is an Arab, and two are LGBTs.

With so much control over the executive branch, the Israeli AG over the years has acquired more power than any other unelected official in the country.

The current breakdown of the Judicial Appointments Committee leans is in favor of the activists by 5 to 4 at best. Shaked is aiming to reverse this by replacing one leftist vote – Michaeli.

Had it not been for the petitions against Tapuach West, the neighborhood would not have been regulated to this day. So thank you, Holland and Norway, your money was well spent.

The High Court of Justice has faced sharp criticism from both sides of the political aisle over its judicial activism.

To date, with very few exceptions, the High Court of Justice has routinely rejected appeals by terrorists' families to halt the demolition of their homes.

Justice Yael Wilner, appointed by former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, was of the minority opinion that the order should be carried out.

The court commits abhorrent violations of the sacred principle of the separation of powers that guides Western democracies.

Can the President assign this task to a defendant in a criminal lawsuit? We'll hopefully get the answer on Thursday this week.

"Why should we even vote if the judges are the ones who end of making the decisions and not our elected officials?"

The High Court of justice ordered overnight Thursday the transfer of the authority to convene a Knesset plenum to the eldest MK, Amir Peretz (Labor).

"The state is not the property of those who are living in it today," Shamgar declared. "They are just the beginning of the message of the salvation of the children of Israel."

Last year, court-appointed psychiatrists determined Leifer was an impostor and fit to stand trial. Since then, she has been held in Neve Tirza women's prison.

Over the two decades or so since Hayut was appointed to the high court, that august body has acted as the 121st member of Knesset.

Justice Stein ordered that the minor be released under conditions determined by the District Court: house arrest under electronic controls, the signatures of two guarantors, and a 35,000 shekel (roughly $10,000) bail in cash.

A disenfranchised citizenry is more likely to choose desperate measures than one that feels it is being heard.

Instead of the committee, Minister Shaked will empower the Knesset to vet supreme court candidates in public hearings, much the way this is done in the US Senate.

Haaretz commentator Nir Hasson on Thursday suggested that "today's Supreme Court is at best a rubber stamp with a legal and moral flexibility regarding...

Justice Stein expressed a conservative approach according to which the High Court must refrain from intervening as much as possible in the decisions of lower courts.

"Somehow, these interventions always favor one side only – against the national and Zionist interests of the state," MK Smotrich said.

While the High Court of Justice does not investigate the legitimacy of claims made by Arab land owners, an administrative court will start with a demand for evidence, which, in a majority of these cases, is dubious at best.

Shaked: ' the judiciary, rather than the elected representatives of the people, wield the power to govern'