Court packing, Redistricting, and the Constitution
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Hugh discusses the impending AI bubble, Congressional redistricting the end of the shutdown, and talks with National Review's Charles C. W. Cooke, Mary Katharine Ham of Getting Hammered & Normally, Amit Segal from Israel's N12 News, "Butler" author Salena Zito, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, Utah Senator John Curtis, CA Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, and Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner.
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| 0:51.0 | Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, joined by Charles C.W. Cook, senior writer for National Review. |
| 0:57.6 | Charles is one of the few people I like to talk to about con law, who is not a lawyer because he actually reads the Constitution, understands it. |
| 1:04.6 | But I want to talk to you about international constitutional law, Charles. |
| 1:08.3 | Have you been following the debate over the Israeli Supreme Court, |
| 1:12.7 | its powers, its overreach, and the attempt to reform it? |
| 1:18.6 | Yes, I'm not an expert on it, I will say up front. But it seems to me that this is an |
| 1:23.6 | interesting question precisely because, unlike in the United States, we don't have in Israel a court that is interpreting a constitution that sits above the rest of the law. |
| 1:36.7 | And so some of its behavior seems usurpatory to me. |
| 1:40.6 | I bring it up because the headline in the Times of Israel at this hour is, |
| 1:45.4 | High Court orders the government to explain why it's not launching an October 7 state inquiry. |
| 1:52.9 | Now, that's just a naked assertion of power by a court that does not rest upon a written or an unwritten constitution. |
| 2:05.6 | What do you think that represents? |
| 2:09.8 | Well, if I were Israeli, I'd be very annoyed by that because it circumvents the democratic process. |
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