Source says Levin rejects 10 justices’ request to retract their nominations for Supreme Court president

A source close to Justice Minister Yariv Levin say that the minister rejects the requests of 10 Supreme Court justices to retract their nominations for Supreme Court president, put forward by Levin himself without their consent, saying that the law does not allow them to do so.

The source alleges in a statement to the press that “organized pressure” had been exerted on the justices to ask for their nominations to be retracted, and says that this leaves “a bad smell of the severe disruption of the election processes.”

Levin nominated all 12 justices after the Supreme Court ordered him earlier this month to call a vote for a new Supreme Court president. He had been refusing to do so for the past 11 months owing to his desire to appoint Elron, a conservative, to the position. Elron doesn’t have a majority of votes on the Judicial Selection Committee.

With all the justices nominated, proceedings will take a long time as the public can air objections to each candidate.