Former Justice Minister Haim Ramon spoke today (Tuesday) on Ben Caspit and Yinon Magal's program on 103FM, and addressed the new outline of legal reform proposed by the chairwoman of the Constitution Committee, Simcha Rotman.
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""There was a regime change, which made everything adjudicative. What did Aharon Barak say? He is the 'architect of the law,' and the Knesset's law has an objective interpretation," said Ramon. "They come and say - from 2008 there was the Gideon Sa'ar amendment, in which they said 'there is a balance,' so since then 19 judges have been elected. Of all the rest, the vast majority - activist judges, some on steroids.".
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He added: "Then they said, 'Listen, we're not making a revolution, two judges will be appointed and the coalition will appoint them,' and they will be added to the Supreme Court. Is this a dictatorship? Is this the darkness of the Middle Ages? They will judge according to the tradition of former Supreme Court President Landau. Everything else remains the same, on the contrary, they give more power to an opposition member to cast a veto.".
He then said: "As Minister of Justice, I announced that there would no longer be an issue of seniority. I told Dorit Beinisch, 'You will be, because you are the most deserving and not because of seniority,' and after that I had the intention of appointing a judge, his name was Zohar Goshen, a Yemeni from Malikin, a legal luminary without a doubt, who would be appointed to the Supreme Court and then he would be the president.".
""I propose that the committee appoint the President of the Supreme Court. Even Smotrich and Simcha Rotman in their proposal, the composition will be random, the composition will be determined by a computer. It will be random, without human touch, without presidential touch. This will be the rule in the Supreme Court. Whoever determined that there is an attack on democracy, on the political system, it was Yair Lapid who said it, not me.".
He emphasized: "Aharon Barak is the initiator of the override clause with a majority of 61. I was there, we didn't know what an override clause was. He saved us from the fall of the Oslo government. The one who invented it was Barak.".
