The fortification law and the overreaching clause: the coalition continues to promote the legislation - voila! news

The reform of the judicial system (the committee for the appointment of judges) was approved in the first reading (Knesset Channel)

A ministerial committee for legislative affairs will meet today (Sunday) to approve the impeachment law initiated by the leaders of the coalition factions, with the aim of preventing the High Court or the Legal Advisor to the Government from declaring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu impeachment. On Wednesday, the proposal will be submitted for approval in a preliminary reading in the plenary

. The Prime Minister's suspension from performing his duties will be solely based on a notification to the Knesset by the Prime Minister or the government received by a majority of 75% of its members, and by a majority of 90 Knesset members. This means that in the current government and Knesset it will be enough for the Likud to oppose the proposal and it will not be approved.

The bill also states that "a court, including the Supreme Court in its session as a high court of justice, will not discuss a request to declare the Prime Minister's impeachment or for approval; a decision or order of such a court will be without authority and void", this is in order to eliminate the possibility that The judges of the High Court of Justice will rule on the petition before them. The bill defines that the impotence of a prime minister means only the physical or mental inability of the prime minister to perform his duties and not any other reason or factor.

The Constitution Committee will continue to hold discussions.

Simcha Rothman at the committee hearing (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

At the same time, the Constitution Committee chaired by MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism) will continue to hold discussions on two bills whose purpose is to almost completely reduce the possibility of the High Court of Justice to invalidate ordinary laws, this through a superseding clause and placing requirements that the annulment of a law be done only in full of 15 of the 15 judges of the Supreme Court, with unanimous support, and only if "the law clearly contradicts a provision enshrined in the Basic Law". for progress in discussions.

One of the proposals was approved this week in a preliminary reading in the plenum, but according to Justice Minister Yariv Levin, the coalition is not expected to advance them for final approval in the plenum in the current session of the Knesset, which will end before Passover.

Levin said that the plan is to approve in three readings the change in the composition of the committee for the selection of judges and the cancellation of the High Court's judicial review of fundamental laws and only in the next session of the Knesset to continue promoting the other parts of the reform. The closest in light of the ultra-orthodox factions' demand.

Despite the protests and demonstrations, so far there is no possibility of talks and both sides, both in the coalition and in the opposition, show no willingness to talk about a compromise in the wording. Levin himself said that there may be changes in the bills that are being promoted because "the Knesset is not a rubber stamp", as he put it,

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