Overview

• Carles Puigdemont filed recusations against Concepción Espejel, Enrique Arnaldo and José María Macías, halting the Constitutional Court’s planned admission of his amparo.
• Antoni Comín submitted identical recusations, which also pause consideration of his challenge to the Supreme Court’s refusal to apply the amnesty.
• The court had been set to admit Puigdemont’s appeal and to reject his urgent bid to suspend his national arrest warrant, but those decisions are now on hold.
• After Arnaldo raised an objection, the court also postponed admitting the amparo of Lluís Puig, the other rebel-status defendant who had not filed recusations.
• Magistrate Laura Díez will draft the proposal on Puigdemont’s recusations and Inmaculada Montalbán will do so for Comín’s, with sources expecting roughly a month’s delay and substantive analysis to begin in October.