Amir Ohana, Matt Whitaker, and Dan Schneider - CPAC Israel 2022

Dan Schneider, CPAC Executive Vice President, moderates a panel at CPAC Israel with Matt Whitaker, Amir Ohana, Member of Knesset, and Former Israeli Minister of Justice moderated by Dan Schneider, CPAC Executive Vice President. The panel, titled ‘Conservative Judicial Revolution’, discusses the rule of law.

“We want our countries to be governed by the rule of law but we don’t want them to be governed by the rule of lawyers, which is what we have,” Ohana states. Israel is currently facing a similar issue as the United States with what Ohana calls a “judicial oligarchy.” Both countries were founded on a system of checks and balances with the intention of regulating federal power and maintaining a democracy, but both are currently facing corruption of this system. In America, the Supreme Court for decades has been performing the function of the legislative branch to determine policy. Similarly, Israel is grappling with the overrunning of lawyers, judges, and its court systems in setting national law.

Whitaker and Ohana are pushing back on this tyranny. Ohana presents a four point plan for government reform. He states his vision for the future of Israeli government, “I want to see a system that brings more power to the people by their representative, to see a more pluralistic and more diverse judicial system that reflects the beautiful mosaic of the Israeli society.”

Whitaker encourages a grassroots movement to affect change. “I think across the world freedom-loving people have to explain not only what is at stake but what the goal is and if we get there how life is going to be better for all of our fellow citizens and not just the elites.”

In the U.S., Supreme Court rulings in the last month, such as West Virginia v. EPA, have made forward progress toward returning governing power to the people, but that is just the beginning.