From chainsaw to bulldozer
“Whoever wants to hear, let him hear.” The libertarian official, with a past linked to Peronism, resorts to a classic of the poetics of that force to exemplify the instructive signals that the Government gives to advance its objectives.
At that time, a week after the crypto scandal shook the top of power, the Mileísta bulldozer accelerated towards a new formation of the Supreme Court of Justice. The appointment by decree and commission of the highly controversial federal judge Ariel Lijo and the academic Manuel García Mansilla should not be surprising given the indications given by the Government regarding the virtual freezing of their files in the Senate. However, the decision entails a political, judicial, legislative, media and even business earthquake that is not suitable for the faint of heart.
The appointments to the Court were published in today's official bulletin, but the news is still developing. The Federal Chamber will examine whether to approve a request for leave from his Comodoro Py court made by Lijo, since he will avoid resigning. The judges, who have already endorsed his candidacy for the highest court, can take charge of the decision or pass it on to the Court. The first option is more likely .
Except for Ricardo Lorenzetti , who was quick to privately congratulate Lijo and García Mansilla on the news, the rest of the courtiers do not look favorably on these arrivals, more for the form than for the substance.
What's more, if the president of the Court, Horacio Rosatti , and the vice president Carlos Rosenkrantz show signs of avoiding swearing in their "new" colleagues in the commission (until the end of this period of ordinary legislative sessions on December 1), official sources assure that it would be Javier Milei himself who would make them swear in. This is what his hated Raúl Alfonsín did with the members of the Supreme Court at the beginning of his presidential term.
In this regard, the Court warns that if it is not the same court that administers the oath, any signature by Lijo and García Mansilla on a ruling would expose it to nullity. They interpret this as a breach of legal security. Ergo, a possible conflict of powers .
The Government is assuming another possible obstacle . It believes that numerous appeals will be filed in the Administrative Litigation Court to stop the arrival of Lijo and García Mansilla to the Court by means of decrees. There is confidence that they will be resolved in favor: even in the Supreme Court it is considered that these appointments by decree and in commission while the Senate is not in session are constitutional. It is not that way.
As happened this week when he stood up to Grupo Clarín in its acquisition of Telefónica, Milei is giving another example of his iron will to pursue his political and economic objectives. And if they seem reckless, they seem more tempting to him. The bulldozer advances . How far?
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