Overview

• The Senate’s Constitutional Affairs Commission is scheduled to meet next week to resume discussion of the court expansion bill.
• Opposition senators propose increasing the tribunal from its current five members to nine, with a majority of seats reserved for women.
• Kirchnerismo demands control of at least three of the new justices’ seats to secure its influence under the two-thirds confirmation rule.
• The executive has formally distanced itself from the reform proposal and is pushing to delay any vote until after October’s general elections.
• The Court currently operates with only three justices—Horacio Rosatti, Ricardo Lorenzetti, Carlos Rosenkrantz—after two vacancies opened following retirements and rejected nominees.