Levin said to promise override clause bill will be brought for plenum vote this week

Justice Minister Yariv Levin has promised the leaders of all coalition parties that the deeply controversial bill introducing an override clause — allowing the Knesset to re-legislate laws struck down by the High Court of Justice — will be brought to its first Knesset plenum vote this week, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

Last week, the bill was removed from the plenum agenda at the last minute, reportedly to allow chances for negotiations with opposition figures, brokered by President Isaac Herzog, to reach a widely agreed-upon compromise on the government’s sweeping judicial overhaul.

But the legislative process is moving ahead at full speed now, according to the report, which also says the law aimed at reinstating Shas party chief Aryeh Deri as a minister, by eliminating all High Court oversight on ministerial appointments, will be brought for a vote this week.

The report adds that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to personally take part in tomorrow’s plenum votes on the first parts of the legal overhaul — giving the coalition total control of the Judicial Selections Committee and barring the High Court from intervening in quasi-constitutional Basic Laws — since he has a legal opinion saying that doing so would not breach his conflict of interest agreement.

The agreement bars him from personally dealing with the overhaul process, since it could affect his own corruption trial down the line.