#ISRAEL: Lawmakers Limit Supreme Court Powers, Violence Erupts

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Israeli lawmakers voted Monday to limit the Supreme Court’s ability to strike down government actions, delivering a long-sought goal of the country’s ascendant right-wing movement. 

The measure was pushed through despite months of civil unrest, international condemnations, and pleas from business and security leaders to seek consensus in a deeply divided society on the verge of chaos.

Lawmakers methodically voted down 140 amendments from the opposition, just as they had shouldered through more than 1,000 objections in a week of preliminary maneuvering and more than six months of nationwide protests.

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#POLAND: EU Starts Process Of Stripping Poland Of Member State Voting Rights Over Court Reforms

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The European Union has triggered a process that could ultimately see Poland stripped of voting rights in Brussels in an unprecedented step designed to force the country’s conservative government to drop reforms the bloc regards as a threat to the country’s democracy. The country's fellow 27 member states have been advised by the European commission that the legislative program of Poland’s government is putting at risk fundamental values expected of a democratic state by allowing political interference in its courts.

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