Politicizing Constitutional Review - The Case of the Finnish Pushback Law Sormunen, Milka Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-9220-2029 Text xx# 2024 Verfassungsblog 2024-12-16 eng
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 In July, the Finnish Parliament passed the Act on Temporary Measures to Combat Instrumentalised Migration. The Constitutional Law Committee, a Parliamentary organ in charge of ex ante constitutional review of legislation, greenlighted the Act despite the fact that all of the 18 legal experts it consulted found it to be in conflict with the Constitution, human rights obligations and EU law. This sparked a discussion about the politicization of the Committee and the role its experts play both in the Committee and the media. In this blog, I argue that the Committee’s politicization is visible in how it dressed political arguments as legal when assessing the law. CC BY-SA 4.0 Sormunen, Milka Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union Constitutional Review EU Human rights obligations EU 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/politicizing-constitutional-review/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/9088afe685d52f8d 241216 10.59704/9088afe685d52f8d Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)