Be suspicious of those who work in the summer and may be on vacation. Surely he is hiding dark interests. The most innocuous of his motivations may be that he is a scrounger who is only willing to dip his hand into his pocket when the summer vacation prices already mark the beginning of the off season. But there may be darker reasons. Escaping family obligations, for example. Or worse, pretend to vacation twice. One staying in the office in August to enjoy the good life because there is nothing to do and one going off to lounge when the workload increases again with the return to normality of autumn.
The rule also applies to the magistrates of the Constitutional Court (TC). The only thing is that there the interests can be even more unconfessable. For example, obstructing from the judiciary the negotiation process between political parties so that the new legislature can begin. This, and nothing else, is what the popular deputies, excuse me, magistrates!, César Tolosa and Concepción Espejel have done from the vacation room of the TC, overturning the protection appeal of Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín over the his arrest warrant in Spain. One way or another to add fuel to the labyrinthine fireplace of negotiations with the coverage provided by togas. What has been said Always be wary of anyone who claims to work during the time of year when slacking off is almost a medical prescription.
The reasoning with which the right-wing magistrates Tolosa and Espejel construct the legal argumentation with which they overturn the appeal of the former president of the Generalitat and his former Health Minister are a joke. A poorly orchestrated dissimulation that aims only to keep in front of the gallery forms that are in reality definitively lost.
The two conservative magistrates have played politics by adding turbidity to the negotiating game that is currently being developed for the control of the Congress Bureau and the subsequent investiture of the president. If the negotiating box between the socialists and the juntaires is already tiny enough, we’ll see if we can tighten it a little more. The reader will say that these statements can only be conjecture. Right, that’s right. Only white and in a bottle most of the time it’s nothing but milk.
The private vote of the third member in discord of the vacation room, the progressive Laura Díaz, openly warns against the cronyism of her two colleagues. There was no rush to resolve and even less to move away from the doctrine followed until now by the same court to admit any appeal related to the process so that it was then the plenary chamber of the TC that resolved.
Beyond the legal impact of the decision, the end of which would certainly have been the same, its political background is of particular interest. It takes us back to the shamelessness with which in Spain the ideological affiliation of magistrates is trafficked to secure certain decisions to the detriment of others, in addition to the capricious use of the calendar in the way that is most convenient for the benefit of the intentions policies It’s not just a problem for conservative judges. Self-styled progressives are playing the same game, only their obligatory courtesies have other recipients. Justice is too fond of politics.
Since the TC has long had no prestige, without the credit for the disaster being able to be monopolized by either the right or the left, it can be argued that it is exactly the same that it continues to obstinately shoot itself, even if with small caliber as on this occasion, at the feet. It is true that there is no way to detract from the credibility of someone who stubbornly worked to lose it all. Seen this way, it may be that we are actually over-judging ourselves and that there really isn’t much to it. After all, TC is just TC. Once more.
