JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s Supreme Court will in September hear arguments against the government’s failure to convene a panel for selecting judges which has been at the heart of a constitutional crisis, the political watchdog group behind the appeal said on Thursday.
The Supreme Court website showed a Sept 7 hearing of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel versus Justice Minister Yariv Levin, architect of a disputed judicial overhaul.
Among proposed reforms is an expansion of the Judicial Appointments Committee to give the government more sway over picks for the bench. Amid opposition protests, that bill was suspended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March.
Despite a growing roster of unfilled court positions, Levin has declined to convene the committee in its unchanged format.
(Writing by Dan Williams; editing by James Mackenzie, William Maclean)
