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What happens when courts stop protecting us—and start protecting power?

In this urgent episode of The Pluralist Podcast, IRAC Executive Director Orly Erez-Likhovski is joined by award-winning journalist and legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick to explore the fragile state of democracy in Israel and the United States. From the refusal to appoint justices in Israel to the partisan tilt of the U.S. Supreme Court, the two legal minds unpack what Princeton Professor Kim Lane Scheppele calls “autocratic legalism”—when leaders use the law itself to dismantle democracy from within.

📌 Topics include:

– The erosion of judicial independence in Israel and the U.S.

– How Netanyahu and Trump use legal systems to consolidate power

– Why the courts must be both respected and defended

– The public’s role in protecting democracy

– What IRAC is doing on the legal front lines in Israel

🎧 The Pluralist Podcast is where Jewish values meet the struggle for a just, equal, and inclusive Israel.