Rothman blasts High Court for nixing request to delay reasonableness law hearing

22 August 2023, 2:52 pm

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MK Simcha Rothman, chair of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset on June 20, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Senior coalition lawmaker Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism) tears into the High Court of Justice for rejecting a government request to delay a hearing on the legality of the “reasonableness” law.

“With all my heart, I wanted to believe that the High Court is not deliberately striving to create a constitutional crisis as part of its war to preserve its excessive power at the cost of dragging the State of Israel into chaos. But reality proves that this was a completely naive thought,” Rothman tweets.

“The High Court [is acting as if it has] no limits, and in a democracy, there must not be an authority whose powers have no limits,” he adds.