After government missed deadline, High Court threatens to issue injunction Sunday against new method to fire AG

After the government missed a deadline today for replying to a request for an injunction against a new method it seeks to introduce to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, the High Court of Justice says if a reply isn’t filed by Sunday morning, it will issue such an injunction.

The request for an injunction was made by the Movement for Quality Government.

The government was previously told to respond by noon today. According to the Walla news site, not only did it not reply — it didn’t even appoint an attorney to represent it in the court case, after receiving approval to be represented by private counsel rather than by the attorney general.

“If a reply isn’t submitted by Sunday at 10 a.m., I will see this as acceptance of, or at least lack of objection to, the request,” writes Justice Noam Sohlberg. “In accordance, an injunction will be issued as requested, without taking a stance on the subject matter of the arguments made in the request.”