Overview

• The Consiglio superiore della magistratura’s majority and center-left lay members submitted a request to open a formal protection practice for the Ufficio del Massimario.
• Justice Minister Carlo Nordio has defended his labeling of the office’s report on the security decree and Italy-Albania migrant pact as irriverent, improper and imprudent.
• The Ufficio del Massimario had flagged potential constitutional infringements in the fast-tracked Security Decree introducing new protest and property-occupation offenses.
• The Democratic Party accused Nordio of institutional overreach and bad faith for drawing President Mattarella into the dispute.
• Fratelli d’Italia backed Nordio’s stance, while critics warn that political attacks on judicial bodies risk eroding public confidence in an impartial judiciary.