According to critics of the overhaul, cancelling the reasonableness standard will seriously damage the judicial system’s ability to reverse extreme acts by the government such as corrupt appointments and dismissals in key posts. It will also limit the court’s ability to protect the election process from corruption, and ordinary citizens from arbitrary, illogical administrative decrees.

Netanyahu and Co. are trying to take away the ability of the judiciary to block “unreasonable” governmental actions. A hard step toward authoritarianism.