Communications Minister Shlomo Kerei sent a letter to the Prime Minister's Legal Counsel stating that he decided that they no longer represent him.
According to a report today (Thursday) in 'Kan News', the document that Keri sent to the deputy attorney general reads: "I inform you that in accordance with Section 22 of the Bar Association Law, you and your colleague no longer have any power of attorney to represent me or the Ministry of Communications. Consequently, you are no longer authorized to write or delete anything on behalf of the Minister of Communications. I will present my position to the court if necessary.".
The minister emphasized: "In the extreme reality to which the Supreme Court justices and legal advisors have led us, a reality in which judges and officials have completely absolved themselves of the burden of the law, the expectation that only ministers alone - the only ones in this arena for whom there is an express provision exempting them from obeying judicial orders - will subject themselves to the whims of the judges and officials, is a recipe for anarchy.".
He said, "We have come a long way since the last point where judges could wash their hands clean and claim that they are merely 'interpreting the law.' Judges uphold the law only if it contributes to the fortification of the judicial-clerical establishment, and their political worldview on the issue at hand. In these extreme circumstances, your statement that 'the Minister of Communications is not above the law' is correct, but the statement that 'he must uphold judicial orders' is wrong.".
""Neither the legal counsel nor the judges deal with the interpretation of the law. Your office joined hands with the petitioners and the judges to deprive me of the little authority to supervise the corporation that the legislature granted to the Minister of Communications. This is a political move, not a legal one, and titles like 'decision' or 'ruling' have no power to give it binding force,",
Minister Kari also attacked the court, in response to a petition by the Success Association regarding appointments to the corporation's council.
The Minister of Communications said that the judges and "legal counsel officers have completely discharged the burden of the law" and that "the law enshrines the supremacy of elected officials over judges.".
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