nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200416-182041-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200416s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200416-182041-0 doi eng 342 23 Somek, Alexander Author aut Is the Constitution Law for the Court Only? - A Reply to Sebastian Kurz Somek, Alexander Verfassungsblog 2020-04-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier According to Chancellor Kurz, this is not the time for juridical sophistry (juristische Spitzfindigkeiten). At the end of the day, it would be left to the Constitutional Court to decide on the legality of the COVID-19 measures which, when it will hand down a decision, will have been already revoked. These remarks betray a certain outlook on the authority of constitutional law. Putting the matter starkly, it suggests that the constitution is law for the Constitutional Court only. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Austrian Constitutional Court Coronavirus Sebastian Kurz Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/is-the-constitution-law-for-the-court-only/ raw object