It was previously mentioned in the first article of this series that the Constitutional Court issued the second issue of its journal, and the court distributed the pages of the issue across several axes; among them the axis of rulings issued by the court last year related to appeals of unconstitutionality.
It should be noted regarding appeal number (9) of the year 2024 and appeal number (10) of the year 2024, as they were the subject of ruling number (1) of the year 2025 and ruling number (2) of the year 2025, that the plea of unconstitutionality was raised before a single court (West Amman), and by the same lawyer; as he represents the plaintiff in both cases, and the plea was represented by: "unconstitutionality of the amendments that were made to articles (2, 43/A/4) of the internal regulations of the Press Syndicate number (83) for the year 2003 and its amendments by virtue of regulation number (131) for the year 2008 for violating articles (31) and (111) of the Constitution."
Also, the two appeals of unconstitutionality, the subject of the mentioned rulings, were brought to the Constitutional Court on the same date (12/2/2024), and the Constitutional Court sent these two appeals to the official authorities on the same date as well (12/2/2024).
The Prime Minister sent his responses to the appeals separately from each other; where he sent his response to appeal number (10) for the year 2024 on date 12/10/2024, and sent his response to appeal number (9) for the year 2024 on date 12/11/2024, and the appeals were dealt with separately from each other, without indicating that the appeals were related to the same legal texts.
This practice reveals a flaw in the procedures for following up on appeals of unconstitutionality at the Prime Minister's office/ Legislation and Opinion Bureau, and the same conclusion was reached in one of the articles of the first issue of this series.
In light of the foregoing, and to ensure the institutionalization of processes related to appeals of unconstitutionality at the Prime Minister's office, and to ensure no contradiction in the responses related to the same legal texts, it might be more fitting to establish a specialized unit within the Legislation and Opinion Bureau tasked with overseeing the constitutionality of laws and regulations; to be tasked with preparing the appeal intended to be submitted by the Cabinet, and providing responses to the appeals submitted by other bodies.
