Constitutional Court of Italy#Membership

The court is a post-World War II innovation, established by the republican Constitution of Italy in 1948, but it became operative only in 1955 after the enactment of the Constitutional Law n. 1 of 1953 and the Law n. 87 of 1953.Italian Government, "[http://www.governo.it/Presidenza/CONTENZIOSO/contenzioso_costituzionale/documentazione/L_19530311_87.pdf Norme sulla costituzione e sul funzionamento della corte costituzionale]", published 14 March 1953, accessed 5 October 2023 It held its first hearing in 1956.

According to Article 134{{cite web|title=La Costituzione della Repubblica italiana |url=http://www.quirinale.it/page/costituzione|publisher=Presidency of the Italian Republic |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116105208/https://www.quirinale.it/page/costituzione |archive-date= Jan 16, 2024 }} of the Italian Constitution, the Court shall pass judgement on:

• controversies on the constitutional legitimacy of laws issued by the State and Regions and when the Court declares a law unconstitutional, the law ceases to have effect the day after the publication of the ruling;
• conflicts arising from allocation of powers of the State and those powers allocated to State and Regions, and between Regions;
• charges brought against the President.

Additionally, a handful of constitutional laws were promulgated to regulate the powers and functionality of the Court during the years. The most important being constitutional law n. 1/1953, which, among other things, extends the power of reviewing and approving referendum's requests to the Court. (Art. 2)

The Constitutional Court passes on the constitutionality of laws with no right of appeal, as the Court is the highest court in relation to constitutional matters in Italy.

Since 12 October 2007, when the reform of the Italian intelligence agencies approved in August 2007 came into force, the pretext of state secret cannot be used to deny access to documents by the Court.

The Constitutional Court is composed of 15 judges for the term of service of nine years: 5 appointed by the President of Italy, 5 elected by the Parliament of ItalyParliament appoints judges with increasing delay: [http://www.lastampa.it/2015/10/03/italia/politica/consulta-sfregio-infinito-ventisei-votazioni-fallite-aAwyPjNM4DyULVbUIjMd1N/pagina.html Giuseppe Salvaggiulo, "{{lang|it|Consulta, sfregio infinito. Ventisei votazioni fallite}}"], in La Stampa, 3 October 2015 {{in lang|it}} and [https://www.academia.edu/15206637/Per_lelezione_di_tre_giudici_costituzionali Giampiero Buonomo, "{{lang|it|Negoziazione politica e Parlamento...Non solo risate}}"], in Avanti online, 26 August 2015 {{in lang|it}}. and 5 elected by the ordinary and administrative supreme courts. Of those elected by the supreme courts, 3 are elected by the Supreme Court of Cassation of Italy (penal and civil justice), one is elected by the Court of Auditors of Italy, and one by the Council of State of Italy (supreme administrative court). Candidates need to be either lawyers with twenty years or more experience, full professors of law, or (even former) judges of the Supreme Administrative, Civil and Criminal tribunals.{{cite web |first1=Justin O. |last1=Frosini |first2=Sara |last2=Pennicino |url=http://www.thecourt.ca/2007/02/02/report-from-italy/ |title=Report from Italy |publisher=The Court |date=2 February 2007 |access-date=29 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130003344/http://www.thecourt.ca/2007/02/02/report-from-italy/ |archive-date=30 January 2015 |url-status=dead }} The members then elect the President of the Court. The President is elected from among its members in a secret ballot, by an absolute majority (8 votes in the case of a full court). If no person gets a majority, a runoff election between the two judges with the most votes occurs. The President of the Court appoints one or more vice-presidents to stand in for him in the event of his absence for any reason.

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• List of presidents of the Constitutional Court of Italy

• List of judges of the Constitutional Court of Italy

• [http://www.cortecostituzionale.it Official website]

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