increasingly estranged from the fundamentalist wing of the greens, particularly regarding alliances with larger parties, schily left the party in 1989, resigned his seat in parliament, and joined the social democrats (spd) instead – which he represented in the new "bundestag" in 1990. in subsequent years, he was active in affairs of the former east germany and in coordinating various legal policies of the spd. between 1994 and 1998, schily served on the committee on the election of judges ("wahlausschuss"), which is in charge of appointing judges to the federal constitutional court of germany. he was also a member of the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the highest courts of justice, namely the federal court of justice (bgh), the federal administrative court (bverwg), the federal fiscal court (bfh), the federal labour court (bag), and the federal social court (bsg).