Columnist Ariel Kahana (Israel Hayom) argues that the High Court of Justice has effectively become an upper legislative chamber, freezing four recent laws and reviewing several others. He compares the court's expanding role to the U.S. Senate and British House of Lords, asserting that it has assumed a power never granted by the Knesset or the people.
Columnist Ariel Kahana (Israel Hayom) published a Sunday op-ed arguing that the High Court of Justice has transformed itself into an upper legislative chamber, freezing four recently enacted Knesset laws and reviewing at least ten others. The laws frozen include Communications Minister Kar'i's media law, the yeshiva student non-arrest law, the regulation of legal advice to the government, and the Bar Association law. Kahana says the court's intervention is no longer exceptional, as former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak had urged, but has become routine. He compares the court's role to the U.S. Senate and the British House of Lords, asserting that no legislation or popular mandate ever granted the court such authority. The column adds to growing political criticism of the High Court's expanding power, a topic previously covered by The Zioneer.
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