The High Court of Justice hearing on the reasonableness standard will be presided over by all 15 justices, which has never been done before. Here's the process for how it will work.
If postponed, the hearing may come at a time when High Court President Esther Hayut and a justice are set to retire.
LEGAL AFFAIRS: The creation of a constitution is plagued with its own share of disagreements and challenges.
The problems with the incapacitating law are nothing personal.
High Court President Esther Hayut, Vice President Uzi Vogelman, and Justice Yitzhak Amit will preside over the hearing in which arguments will be made about the Basic Law: The Government amendment.
Yesh Din argued that only the military had the authority to set rules and regulations in the West Bank.
A barrage of petitions was filed against the reasonableness bill on Monday and Tuesday, after it had passed in a dramatic Knesset voting session on Monday.
The basic laws are the fundamental legal framework under which the power of judicial review exists.
Opposition and protest leaders said immediately after the Knesset vote that the real struggle begins now.
The purpose of the law, the Israeli Bar contended, was to "immunize" the heads of the executive authority from acting within the bounds of reason.
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