Israel's Supreme Court says it will not block a controversial new judicial overhaul law right now, but will debate it in September
The court said it would debate the law in September but would not issue an injunction to block it before then. The new law, which strips the Supreme Court of the ability to reject some government decisions on the basis of the “reasonableness” standard, was the first of the government’s major judicial reforms to be passed by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.
Uncharted territory The reasonableness standard has allowed Israel’s Supreme Court to strike down government decisions when they are deemed to have been made unfairly and without taking into consideration all relevant factors.
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