This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of israels Supreme Court, and as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times Paul Friedman about the politics involved and with his colleague Emily Bazilon about the legal issues. Then the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin lose or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zigov. But first heres my take. The mysterious disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister qin gang is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations will be determined not just by american policy and whats happening domestically in the United States such as the president i
in a staff writer of the new york times qwest magazine and a felly at yale law school and co-host of slate s political gabfest podcast. emily, first, let s talk about israel. why is it that so many people feel that this is kind of overreach on the part of the the democratic or legislative branch of the israeli government in terms of curtailing the court s power? israel has an unusual checks and balances and separation of powers and the israeli supreme court plays a kind of singular, very important role as a primary check on the government s power. you know, in the united states we have several checks and balances. we have two houses of government, both the house and congress and the senate.
(don t gooo) ( ) (don t go away) pre-order now and get a free storage upgrade. (please don t go) we are back on gps talking about israel s judicial overhaul. the israeli right says that the country s supreme court has become too strong an impediment to democratic rule. many on the left say the same thing about the u.s. supreme court, so what is the proper role of high courts? joining me now is emily bazelo,