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Thursday, July 8, 2021
Interior Minister: High Court had no authority to hold hearing on nation-state law
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Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked expresses her support for the High Court’s rejection of petitions against the nation-state law, but says it should’ve never agreed to hear them in the first place.
Shaked, a member of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s right-wing Yamina party, claims the hearing “was done with a total lack of authority.”
“Revoking the nation’s authority to define the character and identity of the State of Israel in the name of abstract principles knocks down the basis of the democratic process,” she writes on Twitter.
Shaked, a former justice minister, has long accused the court of overreach and previously pushed a measure that would allow a Knesset majority to override High Court rulings, thereby clipping its power to strike down laws.
The Times of Israel Community.