Justice minister says if he’s reelected, liberal Supreme Court justices ‘will go extinct’
Justice Minister Yariv Levin said liberal Supreme Court justices “will become extinct” if the current hard-right government gets another term, in recorded comments aired by the Kan public broadcaster on Wednesday.In his remarks, which Kan said he made at a recent meeting with Likud activists, the justice minister said he’d held a conversation with a Supreme Court justice, who said Levin’s preferred candidates for new justices were “not up to our standards.”“And if you insist, we’ll wait for the next minister after you, and when he’s elected, it will all be a lot easier,” the judge said, according to Levin.“I told him, and I keep telling the judges all the time, that I believe we will win,” the justice minister said.And with two-thirds of the Supreme Court justices up for replacement in the next few years, “We won’t need judicial reform anymore,” he told the justice. “You will simply go…
Justice Minister Yariv Levin stated that liberal Supreme Court justices “will become extinct” if the current hard-right government secures another term, according to comments aired by Kan public broadcaster. Levin recounted a conversation with a Supreme Court justice who suggested waiting for a future minister to make appointments, to which Levin responded, “You will simply go extinct.” With two-thirds of the Supreme Court justices due for replacement in the coming years, Levin plans to appoint conservative legal scholars like Aviad Bakshi and Raphael Bitton to fundamentally alter the court. Levin's tenure has been marked by clashes with the justice system, including refusing to convene the Judicial Selection Committee and advocating for the government to disregard court rulings.
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