This Monday, in the midst of the bad news that came from the Merval And the bags of the world, with historical stock market falls In response to the violent tariff measures of the “friend” Donald Trumpthe government of Javier Milei He finished receiving a hard blow in his “institutional” plan. The lawyer Manuel García-Mansilla He presented his resignation as judge of the Supreme Court of Justice appointed “in commission”, closed the presidential attempt to cover vacancies of the country’s highest court with addicted judges.
The “indeclinable” resignation of García Mansilla It was the response to the ducedid last Thursday in the Congress. In a session that The liberated progress He sought to prevent until the last moment, The Senate rejected the specifications both of him and the federal judge Ariel foodwhich had been sent in early 2024 by the Government to cover the two vacancies in court.
At the end of February, hours before the ordinary sessions of the Congress, mercy He had appointed both postulates by decree and “in commission.” A few days later, Carlos Ronsenkrantz, Horacio Rosatti y Ricardo Lorenzetti They took an oath to García-Mansillawho immediately began to sign failures as a courtiers. Different was the situation of Foodwho tried to assume taking a license in his position as federal judge of first instance, which in a rapture of “prolixity” was not endorsed by the Court.
Con Food out of play (rejected by the Senate and freezing by the “supreme”), the focus was on García-Mansilla and his complex situation of occupying an armchair in the court having been rejected his specifications. Irreentably, the rumors of his resignation were growing with the days, bound by the opinion of the most diverse constitutionalists who recommended that exit to the crisis generated with his designation.
Finally the speculation came to an end and this Monday at 11:46 in the morning García-Mansilla sent his letter of “indeclinable resignation” to the president to the position of judge of the Court. Thus, the government (starting with the very “iron triangle”) ends up harvesting A very hard defeat in their political-institutional plans.
However, as it has been alerting The daily leftdespite rejection of those unpresentable appointments, Nothing good can be expected of a reactionary Senate, a true caste with members that charge more than $ 9 million per month and that only prepares new negotiations. Not far from even questioning a judicial power plagued by privileges, undemocratic and at the service of great economic power.
It is still unknown if mercy And their cohort will send new sheets to the Senate, with other names that have better chances of being approved as court judges. Not doing so, they will demonstrate once again unbelievable of his alleged institutional concerns. To do so, depending on who the candidates are, we will have to see how much ability to thread y trading They have to get the votes of the parliamentary caste. One way or the other, None of that will have something to advance in a real search for “justice”.
The letter
In his seven -page letter addressed to the president, García-Mansilla He presents his “undeniable resignation to the position of Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation” for which he was appointed, on commission, on February 26 via Decree 137.
There the Dean of the Universidad Austral (Institution of the medievalist Opus day) says that he had agreed to swear as a member of the highest court, even without having been validated by the Senate, convinced that “the lack of integration of the Supreme Court was a serious institutional problem that required an urgent solution.” It was based on the existence of a court of three members, after vacancies left by Elena Highton de Nolasco y Carlos Maqueda.
Then it runs in the argumentation of the “error” that the Court works with three judges only, a situation that according to him carries, among other anomalies, that there are “about 90,000 files pending resolution.”
“I considered that I should assume The responsibility of collaborating With the immediate solution to that serious problem, ”he says García-Mansilla in his letter, justifying even the fact of having contradicted himself. It is worth remembering that on August 28 of last year, at the Public Hearing in the Senate where its document was analyzed, it had assured that it would not assume “in commission”, as it finally did this year.
Today it is justified by stating that he understood “that the right thing was that, despite the unfair and interested criticisms” that he received “of those who choose to question instead of getting involved.” Moreover, he now accuses those who remind his claims of less than a year ago of having made “an intentionally misrepresented cut” of his words.
In turn, he says that part of the rejection of his appointment should be “to the manifest discomfort of certain sectors with the possibility that there are independent judges, who do not have contacts with traditional policy and that they can make free decisions, adjusted to law.” But that is precisely one of the reasons that were most in light with their promotion by the government, since Behind his appointment, Presidential Advisor Santiago Caputo was especially interestedone of the most obscene power hoarders of La Libertad advances. The link with the now frustrated judge was precisely his bishop in the Ministry of Justice Sebastián Amerio.
About the end of his letter, García-Mansilla He says: “From the same conviction with which I assumed the appointment in commission with which you honored me, I consider that, due to the decision taken by the Nation’s Senate to reject the specifications in a timely manner sent (…) I have to do everything within my reach to facilitate that the process is expedited to cover the vacancies that exist in the Supreme Court.”
That is, according to his vision he is “morally” forced to resign, although he might not legally do so. “My permanence in office would not help those responsible for properly integrating the Court aware of the seriousness of this problem and acting accordingly,” he says.
Finally, García-Mansilla He thanks “those colleagues from the Supreme Court” who “welcomed him like a couple.” And to the own mercy For giving him “the opportunity to serve” his fellow citizens, “although I would have liked to do it for longer and in other circumstances.” Before greeting it “with distinguished consideration”, he asks “that God enlightens him and that the future of the Argentine Republic is, finally, that we all deserve.” Almost a poem. Too much Gre to say Gregorio.
MANUEL GARCÍA-MANSILLA WAVEN TO THE CSJN 07-04-2025 BY DANIEL.SATUR18
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