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Knesset speaker: High Court has no authority to deliberate Basic Laws
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Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana attends an Independence Day state ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana hits out at the High Court for hearing petitions on two pieces of legislation relating to the government’s judicial overhaul and the recusal of a prime minister, asserting the justices have no authority to do so as they were approved as quasi-constitutional Basic Laws.
“The judicial branch has no authority to deliberate the validity, application and content of Basic Laws,” Ohana, a member of the ruling Likud party, writes in a tweet. “This is the exclusive authority of the Knesset.”
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