Does the talkative Sciarra have anything to say about Apostolico?
The deafening silence of the Constitutional Court on the decree-wiping judge and Ferrara's correction to Foglio di Cerasa's line on Salvini… Damato's Scratches
Yet in the deafening controversy that broke out over the case of judge Iolanda Apostolico – who refused to apply a law on migrants, freeing four illegal immigrants, because they were allegedly in conflict with article 10 of the Constitution – what I find even more deafening is the silence on the hill of the Quirinale. But I am not writing or alluding to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, who works on that hill, but to the Constitutional Court, which also operates in those parts, in a building opposite the offices of the head of state.
THE SILENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
Of the 15 constitutional judges, starting with their president Silvana Sciarra, but also of their emeritus predecessors still alive, no one – but absolutely no one, at least until the moment of writing – has made their voice heard to claim the competence assigned to them by an article of the Constitution that follows the one applied in its own way by the Apostolic Judge but is quite precise, I would say drastic. “The Constitutional Court – says article 134 – judges on disputes relating to the constitutional legitimacy of laws and acts, having the force of law, of the State and the Regions”.
The "controversy" noticed by Iolanda Apostolico in Catania was instead resolved by herself in a negative sense for the law she had to apply, without even thinking of having to refer the matter to the Constitutional Court. And this frankly seems to me to be much more serious than the equally serious conduct of the judge which emerged from the video which filmed her five years ago among the demonstrators in the square in favor of migrants and against the "killer" police – it was shouted – who applied the law against those who are illegal.
That video immediately befell the fate of the famous finger noticed more than the moon it points to. The judge disappeared from attention, attracted instead by the mysterious cameraman who had portrayed her. And the scandal, or the anomaly, as you prefer, from the presence of the Apostolic in the square – not in a private house, in a club, in a bar – became the provenance of the video. Or, and even more so, its destination after five years, having ended up in the availability of the former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, now in Infrastructure but still vice president of the Council. Who, for having spread it complete with protests against the partiality of a judge who should instead be impartial, has earned himself the accusation of being the returning "beast" shouted out in Repubblica by Stefano Cappellini. Not to mention the "stink of dossieration" felt by Fatto Quotidiano .
EVEN THE PAPER IS CORRECTED
Even Il Foglio , which a few days ago went so far as to somehow defend the Apostolic Judge's decision from the "misrepresentations" of an admittedly "astonished" Meloni, had to correct itself. Or suffer the correction of its founder Giuliano Ferrara, admittedly "sorry" today to have to agree with the protests not of the alleged dossier but of Salvini. Miracle…apostolic.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/corte-costituzionale-silenzio-caso-apostolico/ on Fri, 06 Oct 2023 06:23:27 +0000.