AG says she won’t open criminal investigation into acting Supreme Court chief justice

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara tells Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer that she will not be opening a criminal investigation into Acting Supreme Court Justice Yitzhak Amit after the head of police investigations stated that there was no suspicion of criminal wrongdoing in allegations made against Amit in recent days.

Krozier, a member of the Judicial Selection Committee for the coalition, had asked the attorney general if she intended to open such an investigation, noting that appointment procedures had been postponed in order to complete legal investigations in similar situations.

“The position of all the professional parties who examined the claims is that they do not reveal a basis for the continuation of a probe,” Baharav-Miara tells the MK.

Justice Minister Yariv Levin was ordered by the Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice to convene the Judicial Selection Committee and appoint a new Supreme Court president by today – which would likely be Amit if a vote is called – but Levin has told the court he intends to postpone that meeting until the allegations against Amit could be clarified.

The High Court ordered the attorney general to respond to that decision by this morning, before making a ruling regarding today’s deadline to appoint a new court president.