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Sunday, September 8, 2024
Karhi tells Levin to ignore High Court order on Judicial Selection Committee, says it’s ‘against the law’
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. 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"
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi decries Israel’s “judicial dictatorship” and calls for noncompliance after the High Court of Justice orders Justice Minister Yariv Levin to convene the Judicial Selection Committee and elect a new president for the Supreme Court.
“The law states that the authority rests with the justice minister. Any attempt to take away this authority from him by force is illegal and must be annulled,” he tweets.
“The honorable judges will want to break the law, let them do it themselves and not force law-abiding citizens to do it. After all, they can determine in a judgment who is the president of the Supreme Court, who is the president of the state and who is the prime minister,” he argues, insisting that “it is forbidden to cooperate” with the court.
“This is against the law! Stop the judicial dictatorship,” he adds.
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