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Argentine S. Court ratifies Chief Justice; Cristina Fernandez wants to impeach a second Justice
In another chapter of the ongoing dispute between Argentine president Cristina Fernández and a non-submissive Judiciary, the country's Supreme Court issued a statement on Tuesday ratifying Ricardo Lorenzetti as Chief Justice for three more years starting in 2016, following versions that he was pushing to leave the SC on yet unclear “moral fatigue” grounds. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesDon't you just hate it when checks and balances get in the way of unfettered power.
May 06th, 2015 - 07:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0In a civilized country this would be a constitutional crisis.
May 06th, 2015 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0alas....
Too right.... If we don't agree I'll sack you .. However ...better than a bullet..!
May 06th, 2015 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Down, down to the sewer...
May 06th, 2015 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0+ 70 years of peronism, combined with its most infectious version, the kirchnerism mixed with chavism, will leave a scar so deep in the soul of this country that I am afraid we will never get this over.
Argencubazuela
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NarcoKirchnerism is desperate to overturn and submit the last vestiges of the independent Justice system as they will be leaving power in brief.
May 06th, 2015 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don’t trust Lorenzetti, but I do hope he stands where he is despite all the threats he is getting.
PS. Where is this faggot Pope to uphold him ???
What's up with all the kidnappings? It is getting so freaking dangerous there.
May 06th, 2015 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Truly turning into Caracas as I've been saying will happen.
Comedy extraordinaire.
May 06th, 2015 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“RG Trolls: Defending the indefensible with gusto since 1945!”
“moral fatigue”...?
May 06th, 2015 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So there IS a word for it!
Now, what would be the Spanish word for that?
Wait till Enrique aka Christian Rubilar gets on here defending the shister K's.
May 06th, 2015 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 09. Isn't it odd that all the Ktrolls are absent at the same time?
May 07th, 2015 - 12:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0All of them.
Wonder why???
30% off chorizo's at the central market?
May 07th, 2015 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Waiting on their 100 pesos from La Campora?
So far this year only 23 building permits have been requested in BA.
May 07th, 2015 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No wonder Paul is so angry and lashing out.
Sad thing is its gonna get worse next year.
DEGRADATING HUMAN RIGHTS.
May 07th, 2015 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can't believe still that somebody who seemed a serious judge like d.r Ricardo Lorenzetti continues to expose judge Carlos Fayt, whose cognitive conditions are in process of deterioration, and it's not just a personal opinion, in fact, a few days ago, secretary Carlos Abrita, who has worked with Fayt since many years ago, went to see him to his house, and Fayt didn't recognize him. It was informed by Horacio Verbitzsky from página12, and nobody denied it.
Beside, all those cretins from the hegemonical press, and from the different political parties from the opposition, who try to make people believe that the government is attacking Fayt, omit that since the constitutional reform of 1994, our constitution contemplates the right of ordering to examine the conditions of the judges from the supreme court, who are more than 75 years. What some members from the f. p. v. in the congress want to do, is to comply with that constitutional right.
Anyway, it would be too unfair to blame Lorenzetti only for the intitutional crisis of the supreme court.
Since the deaths of a great judge like d. r. Carmen Argibay, and d. r. Petracchi last year, and since the renounce of d. r. Zaffaroni in january of this year, the number of the members from the court was reduced to 4, which is not good, in fact, judge Elena Highton said that it's necesary to have 7 members in the institution.
C. F. K.'s government sent d. r. Carles's academical conditions to the congress, in order to be treated by deputies and senators. However, the leaders from the different political parties expressed that they are not disposed to treat the conditions of any candidat sent by the government, which shows that the usuall defence of democratic dialogue that many of them often do, is just a decadent farce. All those rabbles are as responsable as Lorenzetti for the actual crisis of the court.
Only a political negotiation between the government and the opposition can solve this problem.
13 Axel
May 07th, 2015 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good, informative post. At this point, SC judge Carlos Fayt does not have an alternative. He must show up and demonstrate he is still able to exercise his important position or take a well deserved retirement--at 97!
Off topic, but Great news: A US hedge fund obtained a freeze order this week on Argentinean embassy bank accounts in Belgium as it goes after a US$1.3 billion debt default against the South American country, local media reported on Thursday.
May 07th, 2015 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13 patting himself on the back in post 14 jajajaja
May 07th, 2015 - 10:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A bit off topic too, but after 43 years of continued power, the Conservatives were tossed out in the May 5 election in Alberta, Canada. The leftist New Democratic Party gained majority.
May 08th, 2015 - 01:36 am - Link - Report abuse 015
Here you have it: one of our dear neighbours from across the Andes glossing over “great news:” a victory of a U.S. vulture fund over Argentina. Probably the vultures will find a lot of money in those accounts...
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No. Better not comment on this.
RIP Alberta.
May 09th, 2015 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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