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Gantz: Coalition doesn’t want to fix judicial system, it wants to tame it
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
The coalition’s proposed bill to give the Knesset the authority to halt the prime minister’s ongoing corruption trial would create a two-tiered justice system, argues Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation is slated today to advance legislation sponsored by Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech allowing the Knesset House Committee to “stay the legal proceedings against the prime minister or a government minister” following an indictment, “if it deems it necessary.”
Gantz says in a video statement: “Giving a political body the license to stop a trial is the path to a country with one law for the ‘masters’ and another for the ‘subjects.’
“Do you think our citizens don’t understand what you’re doing? You don’t want to fix the judicial system; you want to tame it for your own needs. That will not happen.”
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