From State challenges High Court’s authority to issue Levin orders on judicial selection panel
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and all 14 other judges hear petitions against the 'reasonableness law' at the court in Jerusalem on September 12, 2023. (DEBBIE HILL / POOL / AFP)
The government files a request to the High Court of Justice asking it to cancel a temporary injunction ordered hours earlier against Justice Minister Yariv Levin, asking to justify not convening the Judicial Selection panel.
“With all due respect, the honorable court is requested to cancel its decision to issue a temporary injunction,” the request reads, adding that it was issued “without authority and in contravention of the law.”
“With all due respect, the court is not authorized to determine for the respondents, and certainly when it comes to the justice minister and the Government of Israel, what will be written in the answering affidavit, and this is subject – as it is – to the sole discretion of the respondents,” the request says.
