Supreme Court justices were targeted 39 times in official broadcast

Horacio Rosatti and Carlos Rosenkrantz entered Congress just minutes before the start of the presidential speech. They were located two meters by Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner. Between the head of the Court and the president of the Nation, there were barely two people: the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Cecilia Moreau, and Marcelo Fuentes, the parliamentary secretary.

To Rosenkrantz’s right were the empty chairs of the other two Supreme Court members: Ricardo Lorenzetti and Juan Carlos Maqueda. In the end, they decided not to attend and let Rosatti and Rosenkrantz go as Supreme Court authorities.

In the previous speech, the two judges of the Court barely exchanged protocol greetings with two deputies from Juntos por el Cambio who came to greet them, according to what witnesses told GlobeLiveMedia at the time. The deputies were Paul Tonelli, former member of the Judicial Council, and Ferdinand Iglesias, who met the president in the middle of a speech. “It’s an honor that Iglesias insults me,” said Alberto Fernández twice.

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A few meters from the judges of the Court was Senator Martín Doñate, who was unable to take the oath as a member of the Judicial Council due to a decision by the Supreme Court. In this resolution, the Court held that his appointment was result of a “ruse” he committed in the Upper House the party in power to keep one more seat in the body which chooses and controls the magistrates.

Behind the judges of the Court sat the head of the Office of the General Defender of the Nation, Stella Maris Martínez, but she was never targeted by the cameras. In exchange, Rosatti and Rosenkrantz were treated to a flood of close-ups. There were 39 in total, according to a count made by this medium.

“We knew what we were going to do. We stayed, despite everything. We represented the court, the judges and the judiciary,” court sources said. Infobase.

The show focused on the judges of the Court, particularly in the home stretch of the speech, when the President’s criticism of the Court’s decision for the co-participation. “The interference of Justice in the execution of the budget is definitely inadmissible. It exceeds its powers, it forgets the rule established by the jurisprudence which recognizes “non-judicial political questions” and jeopardizes the redistributive logic of the federal law on joint participation, causing serious damage to the balance of public accounts”, was one of the salient phrases.

From that moment, the judges of the Court received 33 close-ups in just 30 minutes. Most of them were aimed at the two judges, although there were also shots only of Rosatti, who still kept his arms folded, staring forward. Rosenkrantz, on the other hand, was more relaxed, looking sideways, but not gesturing.

Previous tension over the removal of Supreme Court justices erupted at this time. The president began to receive insults and had to interrupt his speech several times.

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Alberto Fernández only mentioned the Supreme Court four times, but they were furious critics because the accusation of “handling” the Council of the Judiciary. “Just as the executive branch suffered interference from the judiciary in its proper functions, this same Congress had to suffer interference in its prerogatives when the Supreme Court unduly arrogated to itself the power to determine how this legislative body must appoint its representatives before the Council of the Judiciary,” he said.

The judges of the Court also took the looks when there were messages to other sectors of Justice. It happened at the request of Alberto Fernández de “deepen” the investigation into the attack on the vice-president. “I call on justice to act with the same urgency with which it archives cases in which judges, prosecutors or powerful businessmen appear as defendants,” was the message from federal justice.

After two tense hours, Rosatti and Rosenkrantz left the room in silence.

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