The project to initiate the impeachment of the four members of the Supreme Court of Justice promoted by President Alberto Fernández and eleven governors formally entered the Chamber of Deputies today, together with the arguments of the prosecution and different alternatives to advance the investigation. , including proposals for the subpoena of various witnesses.
The initiative, presented in the last hours by the deputy of the FdT Eduardo Valdés together with other legislators of the ruling party, It consists of 410 pages and proposes to summon the four judges of the highest court: Horacio Rosatti -its president-, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti, to appear before the Political Judgment Commission of the Lower House, which will carry out the investigation.
In the draft resolution, which the deputies prepared based on the document promoted by the President, new complaints were also added to be investigated throughout the process, including one on the management of the social work of the Judiciary.
In the draft resolution, which the deputies prepared based on the document promoted by the President, new complaints were also added to be investigated throughout the process.
Regarding the ruling of the highest court on the co-participation that benefited the City of Buenos Aires, the text maintains that “it is evident that the decision adopted by the ministers of the Court is eminently political and partialTherefore, as such, it must be analyzed under the prism of the enormous political and economic impact that it causes within the federal co-participation scheme”.
“The Supreme Court ostensibly and unfoundedly privileged a partisan political agreement that, starting in 2016, promoted raising the co-participation coefficient of the richest district in the country,” the text states.
In this sense, it states that “this is so, while the numerous arguments put forth in order to account for the arbitrariness that justified a disproportionate increase in this coefficient were not duly addressed.”
In the text, The deputies maintain that “all directors, secretaries, officials and/or employees of the Court must be summoned as witnesses Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation who have intervened and/or could provide data of interest regarding the facts denounced”.
“The impeachment process, in which judges of the Supreme Court of Justice are charged and attempted to be removed, is an exceptional instance in which the determination of the political responsibility of the ruler is pursued,” the document added.
It adds that “the poor performance of the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice is evidenced when the magistrate does not apply or decide against the Law in force or lacks moral or intellectual aptitudes for the fulfillment of the task.”
“This poor performance, moreover, is entrenched in a homogeneous composition of jurisdictional resolutions that unequivocally demonstrate a unfaithful and harmful interpretation for the legal order of the Stateat the top of which, the Constitution is spectacularly violated”, the deputies point out.
In line with what was requested by the President and provincial governors, last night the draft resolution promoting the Impeachment of the members of the Supreme Court of Justice was entered in the Chamber of Deputies.
The no. file is 6905-D-2022. pic.twitter.com/KkCn61m4mV
— Deputies of TOD☀S (@Diputados_Todos) January 13, 2023
Call for extraordinary sessions
The national government made official this Friday the call for extraordinary sessions between “January 23 to February 28” to deal with 27 projects, among which are, in addition to the request for prosecution of the Supreme Court, a project to expand the number of members of the highest court, the modification of the Council Law of the Magistracy and a norm related to the treatment of the agreement required to designate the Attorney General of the Nation.
The file number is 6905-D-2022, and bears the signatures of national deputies Eduardo Valdés, Marisa Uceda, Marcelo Casaretto, Agustín Fernández, Julio Pereyra, Varinia Marín, Mabel Caparrós, Bernardo Herrera, Silvana Ginocchio, Gustavo González, Graciela Parola, Ricardo Herrera, Aldo Leiva, Blanca Osuna, and Mara Brawer.
The ruling party has the necessary number in the impeachment commission to sign the opinion of the project, but not with the two-thirds majority that is required in plenary to push the accusation before the Senate.
“Although we are a minority because the opposition says that it will not give a quorum, with the future of compelling evidence, greater support could be added and majorities could be built”Eduardo Valdes
But deputy Valdés assured that “with the development of compelling evidence”, the ruling party could add greater support in favor of impeachment against the Supreme Court judges, as happened in 2003 when Néstor Kirchner promoted the prosecution of the members of the maximum court.
In statements to Télam, the FDT legislator considered that “although we are a minority because the opposition says that it will not give a quorum, with the future of compelling evidence” the ruling party “could add greater support and build majorities” to advance in the impeachment trial against the members of the highest court.
