President’s advisors offer to resign over nomination blunder

President Pavel’s advisory board has offered to resign over its failure to properly screen one of the president’s nominees for Constitutional Court judge. Robert Fremr rejected the nomination on Monday after allegations surfaced that he may have knowingly issued guilty verdicts in over 100 communist-rigged trials and lied about his pre-1989 past in Senate hearings.

President Pavel said he would not accept the board’s resignation. Jan Kysela, the country’s leading expert in constitutional law, who heads the board, said that in making future nominations the board would avoid criminal judges in the given age group in that area of expertise.