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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

Rogue Justice – The Rise of Judicial Supremacy in Israel

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

The Heritage Foundation

Government

4.5527 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Guest is Yonatan Green, a Fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, author of a new book about the seizure of political power by the Israeli Supreme Court, a foreshadowing of what is happening in America with our partisan rogue judges.

Classic movie review of the 1966 film, “Cast a Giant Shadow,” directed by Otto Preminger and starring Kirk Douglas as the real life American Army veteran who went to Israel to help train the fledgling Israeli Defense Force to defend the new nation in the 1948 Arab Israeli War.

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0:00.0

Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

0:04.0

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

0:08.0

I'm on Zonzvikovsky, and this is Case in Point, and today's title of our episode is

0:14.0

Rogue Justice, the Rise of Judicial Supremacy in Israel, which is the name of the book whose author is here today, Yonatan Green.

0:24.5

Now, why are we talking about this? Well, because what happened with rogue judges in Israel

0:31.0

assuming power they don't have to push judicial supremacy is exactly the type of judicial coup that progressive liberals in this

0:40.6

country are trying to implement. We have radical left-wing, rogue judges in our federal courts

0:46.7

who are twisting and breaking the law to seize political power from the executive branch and

0:52.8

use their judicial power to achieve

0:54.8

the political goals that their political allies were unable to achieve at the ballot box.

1:01.5

That's one of the reasons why you constantly hear folks on the left advocating for enlarging

1:08.0

the size of the Supreme Court, in other words, packing the court, something that

1:12.5

Franklin Delano Roosevelt first proposed in the 1930s, because they want to pack the court with

1:19.8

judicial activists who, frankly, will override the constitutional rights that they despise,

1:26.2

like the Second Amendment or the protections in

1:29.9

the First Amendment for religious liberty and against government censorship.

1:35.4

What's happened in Israel is a foreshadowing of what is and could be happening in the United

1:42.8

States, which is why Yonotan Green's book is very informative

1:47.3

and very interesting, even to American readers,

1:51.5

although it's talking about the Israeli judicial system.

1:54.8

So Yonatan, welcome, welcome to the show.

1:59.3

Yonotan Green is a fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution at Georgetown University School of Law, which is run by a good friend of ours, Randy Barnett, a very well-known constitutional scholar in the United States.

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