Israel spirals into unprecendented constitutional crisis as government votes to defy High Court

[Igel]

14. Americans project. "No culture is universal" then "we are the world"--none's universal but ours. We are the Bor...

The US SCOTUS and its take on the Constitution cannot be equated to Israel's "SC" and it's take on ... uh ... what it thinks should be.

A lot of people--and by 'people' I too often mean the NYT, WaPo, NYPo, ChiTrib, LA Times, Houston Chron--act like what SCOTUS says has textual basis--and in this they screw over a lot of peeps.

Sometimes they're utterly biased, "the plain reading of ___" applies for me, but not for 'thee'--in other words, now, just read the words, stupid! otherwise you're doltish; and a bit later, "no, no, you must understand context, symmetry, exe- and eis-gesis, CRT and APR and NPR and COE and acro-thingies I haven't invented--just reading the words will lead you into error!"

Uh, no. Any "news article" will always provide some PR, then the issue, the text of the law(s) at issue--statute or constitutional or common, per Black's--and their understanding. Otherwise, I'm reading IzvesYT or PWaPda.

In Israel, their SC has been the highest law of the land, no constraints. Public opinion? Knesset? Executive? Nah. Their esteem rules supreme. But why? Tanakh, Knesset, the people ... screw them.

Who appoints the court? Various. But to a large extent, imagine if this SCOTUS appointed a lot of the next SCOTUS. And a lot of NGOs--always representing the mainstream, as they don't in the US--got another dollop. (like/don't like, in the US major NGOs/foundations--in other words, corporations that are millionarires or billionaires, and which are legal persons--are often way