Overview
- Argentina’s top court has operated for the past year with only three justices—Ricardo Lorenzetti, Horacio Rosatti and Carlos Rosenkrantz—while efforts to appoint Ariel Lijo and Manuel García-Mansilla stalled.
- Lorenzetti said there is “no doubt” Cristina Kirchner is not a political prisoner and noted the Vialidad case passed through 19–20 judges, many appointed during her governments, without major dissents on the merits.
- He added that the court faced no pressure from the current executive this year and urged swift, balanced appointments to restore full institutional capacity.
- The justice called for institutional reforms to improve public service but opposed reopening the Constitution, warning that such moves can lead to a “disaster.”
- He criticized the handling of sprawling megacases—citing AMIA, the Israeli embassy attack and the Nisman probe—as largely failed, and warned that ineffective democracy breeds authoritarian impulses and digital social control.