Transportation Minister MK Miri Regev and MK Osnat Mark, both of Likud, have petitioned the High Court of Justice to annul yesterday’s meeting of the Judicial Appointments Committee that saw the approval of 61 new judges, including some opposed by right-wingers.
The two, alongside Derech Eretz MK Zvi Hauser, are members of the nine-member panel that boycotted the meeting to thwart the appointments. They have believed the panel could not legally convene without them, but legal advisers in the Justice Ministry ruled that the meeting could go forward.
Transportation Minister Miri Regev, who lowered her face mask to speak, during a press conference at the Transportation Ministry in Jerusalem, on July 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
The two are now calling on the court to undo the panel’s decisions, saying the law demands that at least seven of the nine members take part.
Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn’s Blue and White party backs him up, saying the meeting came “after two years of no new judges being appointed in Israel, to a justice system that sorely needed them.”
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