Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara will soon be required to submit to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation her opinion regarding the bill that the coalition intends to promote which would prevent the Supreme Court from interfering in the appointment of government ministers.
Yediot Aharonot reported that Baharav-Miara intends to oppose the proposal, which aims to secure the re-appointment of Shas chairman Aryeh Deri as a minister, after the Supreme Court decided that he could not continue to serve in his positions and Prime Minister Netanyahu was forced to fire him.
The Attorney General also does not intend to defend the law before the Supreme Court on the government's behalf.
Last week, MK Moshe Arbel (Shas) submitted legislation aimed at enabling the government to reappoint Deri as Interior and Health Minister and preventing the Supreme Court from nullifying the appointments.
According to the draft, the Supreme Court will no longer have the right to intervene in the appointments of ministers, "and there will be no judicial review on behalf of any court regarding any matter related to or stemming from the appointment of a minister or his removal from office, barring the criteria for suitability as set down in Clause 6 (a-c)."
The court's ruling earlier this month, Arbel wrote, "created uncertainty with regard to whether the will of voters is being upheld, and at times has caused the will of the voters to be subverted to the opinion of the court."