Carl I. Hagen has put forward a constitutional amendment to give the Supreme Court the power to review whether a law conflicts with the Constitution, either on its own initiative or based on a petition from a Norwegian citizen. The proposer argues that the current system prevents the Supreme Court from examining constitutional questions unless a party appeals a case or the Storting requests an opinion, and cites examples from the 1990s banking crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic where this has blocked the court from testing the validity of laws.
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A new second subsection to § 89 would read: The Supreme Court may, on its own initiative or based on a petition from a Norwegian citizen, review whether a law conflicts with this Constitution.