MK Simcha Rothman speaks out on the High Court torpedoing judicial reform during wartime
To get his views on the ruling, Mishpacha interviewed MK Simcha Rothman, chair of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee and a leading proponent of the government’s judicial reform strategy, led by Justice Minister Yariv Levin.
No sooner had our interview with Rothman concluded than the Court struck again, ruling (again by a razor-thin margin) against implementation of the so-called “recusal law,” passed by the government with the theoretical intent of preventing Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara from declaring Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu unfit to serve due to his ongoing legal situation.
If American readers sense a parallel with the legal battles raging against former president (and current candidate) Donald Trump, they’re not really wrong. In Israel, as in America, the right more than ever perceives the justice system as having taken political sides.
The fact that the vote split so sharply along ideological lines, with conservative justices opining that the Court lacks the prerogative to disqualify a basic law, and liberal justices arguing that it can, didn’t do much for the Israeli public’s already flagging trust in the High Court, to put it mildly.
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