JERUSALEM — Israel braced Monday for an explosive vote by right-wing lawmakers to restrict the Supreme Court docket’s energy to strike down authorities actions, a part of a sweeping plan to overtake the nation’s impartial judiciary that has provoked unprecedented unrest. Lots of of 1000’s of protesters have turned out to oppose the measure, which critics say would erode one of many few checks on authorities energy in Israel, a rustic and not using a written structure. Supporters, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, say the modifications are a needed correction to a judicial overreach. Each side declare to be defending democracy.
