nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230911-220809-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230911s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230911-220809-0 doi eng 342 23 Medina, Barak Author aut A Government of Laws, not of Men - Judicial Overhaul in Israel and the Unconstitutionality of Denying Courts’ Power to Review the “Reasonableness” of Governmental Decisions Medina, Barak Verfassungsblog 2023-09-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Israeli Supreme Court will hear this week (on September 12, 2023) petitions to invalidate an amendment to one of Israel’s Basic-Laws. The amendment, enacted in late July, denies the court the power to review the “reasonableness” of any governmental decision. This amendment is the first part of larger judicial overhaul plan, initiated by the Israeli government. Based on the court’s existing jurisprudence, I expect that the Supreme Court will declare the amendment unconstitutional, as it violates the core principle of the rule of law. In this post I offer a brief overview of the relevant background, before addressing the merits of the current case. CC BY-SA 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-government-of-laws-not-of-men/ raw object