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- Title
The 2023 Judicial Reform That Wasn’t: From Non-decision Constitution-Making to Decision and Back.
- Authors
Segev, Joshua
- Abstract
This article offers two interpretations of the constitutional confrontation that ensued over the proposed 2023 judicial overhaul legislation. It places the debate in the context of a broader culture war over Israel’s conditions of legitimacy and as a continuum. At one end of the spectrum, the judicial overhaul legislation can be seen as pursuing a ‘decision to decide’ tactic, countered by the opposition using the same constitutional tactic in the opposite direction. On the other end of the spectrum, the judicial overhaul program could be viewed as an opening position in constitutional negotiations, with reform advocates seeking only the nomination of a few committed conservative justices and the maintenance of the constitutional status quo of deciding not decide. To this end, the nationalists’ move was again countered by the opposition using the same constitutional tactic but in the opposite direction to prevent this outcome.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; JUDICIAL reform; LEGISLATION; CONSTITUTIONAL law; JUDICIAL review
- Publication
Israel Studies Review, 2024, Vol 39, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
2159-0370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/isr.2024.390103