Posts Tagged ‘judicial’

CIA deployed bomb techs, dog teams to D.C. on January 6, records unearthed by Judicial Watch show

CIA deployed bomb techs, dog teams to D.C. on January 6, records unearthed by Judicial Watch show In a bombshell announcement, Judicial Watch says it received 88 pages of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) records from the Department of Justice (DOJ) via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request showing that the […]

Israel’s Supreme Court Overturns Key Part Of Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul

The decision threatens to reopen the fissures in Israeli society that preceded the country’s ongoing war against Hamas. Source

An Israeli Civil-War Brewing Over Judicial Overhaul, Or A New War?

In July, the Israeli Knesset ratified the first of a wave of bills that seek to curtail the powers of Tel Aviv’s supreme court, dividing Israel’s Jewish population between supporters of the current “liberal western democracy” model and those seeking a more radical system. While hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters packed the streets, Israeli […]

Both sides of Israel’s judicial demonstrations are calling for “democracy,” but for Jews only

Both sides of the Israeli judicial overhaul debate claim to be upholding the mantle of “democracy.” But because they are also defending the idea of the “Jewish state,” both are simply enforcing apartheid. Source

Why the Israeli judicial protest movement is bound to fail

The time has come for Israeli Jews and their supporters to answer whether they believe in human equality or will continue to insist on Jewish supremacy. Source

Netanyahu slams Biden over criticism of judicial overhaul

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed the Biden administration in Washington over its criticism of his judicial overhaul, stressing that he will not bow to outside pressure. Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, Netanyahu rebuked the US president and others, saying that other countries should not interfere in Israel's domestic affairs. He pointed out […]

Israel Air Force reservists threaten to stop volunteering over judicial overhaul

More than 1,000 Israeli Air Force reservists threatened, on Friday, to stop volunteering for service if the government goes ahead with a planned judicial overhaul, a key component of which comes before parliament next week, Reuters reports. The letter, signed by 1,142 reservists including hundreds of pilots, was the latest sign of opposition within the […]

Hundreds of Israeli Air Force Officers Stop Reserves Service in Judicial Reform Protest

 July 19, 2023 One hundred and sixty-one Israeli Air Force control officer reservists announced on Tuesday evening that they were stopping their volunteer reserve service, effective immediately, due to the Israeli government’s planned judicial reform. “We are a group of reservists who are at the forefront of thinking, planning, and control of Air Force operations […]

Netanyahu ejects party activist over Holocaust mockery at judicial protest

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the ejection on Sunday of an activist from his Likud party who mocked the Holocaust while heckling anti-government protesters, in remarks that suggested ethnic tensions beneath a constitutional crisis, reports Reuters. Video circulated on social media showed Itzik Zarka cursing and spitting at demonstrators at a traffic junction near […]

Tens of thousands of Israelis take to streets for 28th straight week to protest judicial overhaul

Tens of thousands of Israelis on Saturday took to the streets across the country for a 28th straight week to protest a bill that would curb the powers of the Supreme Court, reports Anadolu Agency. The protests have drawn huge crowds in many Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv, West Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba, Rehovot, and Hod […]

Israeli Task Force to Probe Ex-PM Barak, Ex-lawmaker for Incitement over Judicial Overhaul

June 28, 2023 An official task force will investigate former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, and another past lawmaker Yair Golan, for alleged incitement through calls for anti-government protest, Israeli media reported. The former left-wing parliament members “have used their status to urge aggressive uprising against the right-wing government’s judicial reform,” according to i24NEWS. Golan […]

Netanyahu Says Israel Will Move Ahead On Contentious Judicial Overhaul Plan After Talks Crumble

The government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary plunged Israel into one of its worst domestic crises ever earlier this year. Source

Netanyahu: judicial reform will return to gov’t agenda 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said following the approval of the state budget last night that the “judicial reform” to weaken the judiciary will “certainly” come back to the government’s agenda. He added, “But we are trying to reach an understanding, and I hope we will succeed in this.” “We won the elections, we passed […]

Mossad Rebellion against the Netanyahu Administration’s judicial reform

A Pentagon radio memo that was leaked and made public claims that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency encouraged demonstrations against judicial reform by the Netanyahu administration. This accusation comes amid an investigation into classified US document leaks. According to a top-secret US National Security Agency dossier, the Mossad encouraged its personnel and common people to take […]

100 officers reject military services, protest against judicial overhaul

Around 100 officers from a secret unit of the Israeli Air Force have threatened to stop military service if the government goes ahead with legislation limiting the power of the judiciary. This came in a letter signed by the officers and sent to mass media. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Friday that the list […]

Protests against Israeli government’s proposed judicial reform block Tel Aviv’s main airport

Protests against Israel’s proposed judicial reform block Tel Aviv’s main airport and disrupt President Netanyahu’s official trip to Italy Source

Ex-Israel attorney general warns Netanyahu using judicial reforms to end criminal trial

Former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has warned that the judicial reforms proposed by the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are an effort to end the ongoing criminal trial against him. During an interview with Channel 12, Mandelblit noted the timing of the proposals and Netanyahu’s previous position on the judiciary, which he says […]

Thousands of Israelis protest planned judicial reform by Netanyahu’s gov’t

Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against a planned judicial reform by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports Anadolu Agency. According to Israeli public broadcaster KAN, nearly 40,000 Israelis joined the anti-government rally in Tel Aviv's Kaplan Street area. Another protest attended by nearly 10,000 demonstrators took place at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, […]

Netanyahu ignores tens of thousands of protesters criticising his judicial overhaul

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ignored an 80,000-strong rally organised on Saturday night in protest against his government's plans to remake Israel's judiciary. During his cabinet meeting, Netanyahu told his ministers that the elections represented the will of the Israelis so that he does not care about these protests. "Two months ago, there was a […]

Judicial Crisis Network Gives Trump Timely Political Cover With $1 Million Attack on Attorney General Merrick Garland

Just days after FBI agents carried out a search warrant for secret documents wrongly being held at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, a right-wing dark-money group that helped secure a far-right majority on the Supreme Court launched a $1 million digital and cable ad campaign attacking Attorney General Merrick Garland. The Judicial Crisis Network […]

Reviewing the judicial appointments process in Victoria

See document source: https://www.vgls.vic.gov.au/client/en_AU/search/asset/1267527/0 Source

Naomi Klein: The US is in the midst of a ‘shock-and-awe judicial coup’

“The rolling judicial coup coming from this court is by no means over,” warned the author of “The Shock Doctrine.” Source

Corrupt police and the judicial system

Australia’s first police force (the NSW police force) has criminal beginnings where even today the colony’s state’s police forces still commit criminal offences with impunity where the judicial system covers this up. Too many times victims state that they have lost faith in the police and the judicial system, especially when the victims are NGEs […]

Crime Amounting to Extra-judicial Execution: IOF Kill Palestinian after Wounding Him and Neutralizing Any Threats in Occupied East Jerusalem

Date: 09 March 2022 Ref: 27/2022 Time: 09:25 GMT On Monday, in a crime amounting to extrajudicial execution, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and killed a Palestinian male, who stabbed two Israeli police officers in occupied East Jerusalem; even though IOF had shot and wounded him, neutralizing any threats he proposed. Data collected by the Palestinian […]

Tunisian President appoints members of new top judicial council

Tunisia’s President, on Monday, appointed a temporary replacement for the country’s top judicial council, a body he dissolved last month in what his opponents called a move to consolidate his power, Reuters reports. President Kais Saied seized executive authority last year, and last month broke up the top supreme judicial council which had guaranteed judicial […]

Tunisia: magistrates reject ‘violation’ of Judicial Council 

The non-governmental Administrative Magistrates Association in Tunisia has issued a warning about the cutback in judicial reform and denounced what it called systematic defamation campaigns against judges because of their opinions, Anadolu has reported. The association rejected any violation of the country’s High Judicial Council, an independent constitutional body. In the past few days, several […]

Assange: A Judicial Kidnapping

Assange: A Judicial Kidnapping The Liberty Beacon / This article was posted by TLB Staff A Judicial Kidnapping Post by Tyler Durden | Written by John Pilger via ConsortiumNews.com Sartre’s words should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he […]

Right Wing Round-Up: Profound Abuse of the Judicial Process

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The Acquittal Of Kyle Rittenhouse: A Judicial Travesty

Above Photo: Rittenhouse displays a white supremacist hand gesture while meeting with members of the Proud Boys. Rittenhouse, 17 at the time of the shootings, had traveled to Kenosha from Illinois to join a far-right “patriot” vigilante militia calling itself the “Kenosha Guard,” which had been mobilized to “defend property” and assist the police with […]

Judicial Watch Says It Has First-Hand Evidence From DC Police That Shooting Death of Ashli Babbitt Was ‘Unjustified’

Judicial Watch has received first-hand evidence from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department that the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt was “unjustified,” the conservative activist group announced on Nov.10. The organization said in a statement that it has received new audio, video footage and photo records pertaining to the shooting death of Babbitt, including a cellphone video of the […]

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