Lapid: Coalition plan to limit judicial review of gov’t is full-on regime change

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid attacks the coalition’s plan to limit judicial review of government decisions for their “reasonableness” as “full-on regime change,” hours after the government reactivated its shakeup to the judiciary.

Earlier in the day, Lapid and fellow opposition party chair Benny Gantz denied coming to final agreements with the coalition on curtailing the reasonableness test, amid weeks of coalition claims that their parties were aligned in principle to cut the practice.

The coalition will bring a bill to limit the judicial test to a Knesset committee on Wednesday, which Lapid calls “total capitulation by [Prime Minister] Netanyahu to [Justice Minister] Yariv Levin and his cadre.”

He says their plan is “smashing democracy, smashing the Supreme Court, and this time they’re also going after the attorney general,” the latter part in reference to the coalition mulling a separate bill to limit the authority of government legal advisers.