Buenos Aires Herald

December 8, 2012

A Kirchnerite senator warned today that judges who upheld an injunction request made by the media group Clarín on Thursday could be impeached.

One day after “7D,” the Kirchnerite Senator Marcelo Fuentes (Victory Front-Neuquén) warned civil appeals court judges Francisco de las Carreras and María Susana Najurieta, that they could face impeachment “not for having extended (the injunction requested by Clarín), but because the rules of the due legal process have been violated.”

Fuentes, who heads the Upper House’s Institutional Affairs Committee, said that the national government has filed “criminal charges against the whole (civil) appeals court due to the irregular weekly rotation system of judges, something that leads to a lack of impartiality.

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