Support for High Court Is Misguided
Guatemala, July 8, 2020.
Today the chairman and ranking member of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Albio Sires (D-NJ) and Francis Rooney (R-FL), respectively, issued an ignorant and harmful statement about Guatemala. Their statement urges our Congress to “follow through with their responsibility to select judges to the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals.… We are deeply concerned (about) actions against the Constitutional Court [CC] that are stalling the selection process.”
The US embassy coopted the CC in 2016, which has since then issued numerous illegal rulings favoring a socialist agenda. The CC illegally blocked the selection process of appeals and Supreme Court magistrates last year until the new Congress could take over in January—then with more socialists as a result of the electoral fraud run by US Ambassador Luis Arreaga. Dissatisfied with the slate of candidates, the CC twice more blocked the process in 2020.
The current magistrates were supposed to have their term finish on October 12, 2019, but the CC illegally ruled these magistrates could stay in their posts. In a sleight of hand to deflect, the CC then denied their ruling and attempted to leave the magistrates criminally responsible for usurping power. Every decision these magistrates have made since October 13 is null and void ipso jure, leaving Guatemala without a functioning judiciary.
Arreaga leads the socialist team: the CC, the Public Prosecutor Office, and now the police. They are desperate to control the Supreme Court. It would allow them, before Arreaga leaves, to reconstitute inside our government the defunct criminal UN-commission CICIG supported by the US Congress. Someone from the socialist team reached out to Representatives Sires and Rooney to enlist their support. The pair are bludgeoning our Congress to eliminate candidates Arreaga’s team opposes and quickly appoint as magistrates socialist comrades the team favors.
The CC ordered Congress how to proceed with magistrate appointments, a violation of the separation of powers. They ordered the prosecutor general (PG) to provide confidential information about candidates for magistrate to Congress. If the PG complies, she violates the law; if she doesn’t, the CC will charge her with disobedience.
A lawyer filed a criminal complaint against the CC magistrates who issued the order. The Supreme Court, as the Constitution requires, sent the complaint to Congress. The CC, however, ordered Congress to return the original complaint. Three magistrates in that ruling stood accused and could by law not participate.
Faithful to the Constitution, Congress did not comply with the illegal order and filed a complaint with the PG. Sires and Rooney threaten our Congress “not to take steps that would undermine efforts to fight corruption” lest they face US sanctions. If they want to fight corruption and help establish the rule of law in Guatemala, they should look at the CC, the PG and most importantly at their own ambassador.
Last Updated: 8 July, 2020 by LaVoz
US House Subcommittee Sides with Criminal Socialists in Guatemala
Support for High Court Is Misguided
Guatemala, July 8, 2020.
Today the chairman and ranking member of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Albio Sires (D-NJ) and Francis Rooney (R-FL), respectively, issued an ignorant and harmful statement about Guatemala. Their statement urges our Congress to “follow through with their responsibility to select judges to the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals.… We are deeply concerned (about) actions against the Constitutional Court [CC] that are stalling the selection process.”
The US embassy coopted the CC in 2016, which has since then issued numerous illegal rulings favoring a socialist agenda. The CC illegally blocked the selection process of appeals and Supreme Court magistrates last year until the new Congress could take over in January—then with more socialists as a result of the electoral fraud run by US Ambassador Luis Arreaga. Dissatisfied with the slate of candidates, the CC twice more blocked the process in 2020.
The current magistrates were supposed to have their term finish on October 12, 2019, but the CC illegally ruled these magistrates could stay in their posts. In a sleight of hand to deflect, the CC then denied their ruling and attempted to leave the magistrates criminally responsible for usurping power. Every decision these magistrates have made since October 13 is null and void ipso jure, leaving Guatemala without a functioning judiciary.
Arreaga leads the socialist team: the CC, the Public Prosecutor Office, and now the police. They are desperate to control the Supreme Court. It would allow them, before Arreaga leaves, to reconstitute inside our government the defunct criminal UN-commission CICIG supported by the US Congress. Someone from the socialist team reached out to Representatives Sires and Rooney to enlist their support. The pair are bludgeoning our Congress to eliminate candidates Arreaga’s team opposes and quickly appoint as magistrates socialist comrades the team favors.
The CC ordered Congress how to proceed with magistrate appointments, a violation of the separation of powers. They ordered the prosecutor general (PG) to provide confidential information about candidates for magistrate to Congress. If the PG complies, she violates the law; if she doesn’t, the CC will charge her with disobedience.
A lawyer filed a criminal complaint against the CC magistrates who issued the order. The Supreme Court, as the Constitution requires, sent the complaint to Congress. The CC, however, ordered Congress to return the original complaint. Three magistrates in that ruling stood accused and could by law not participate.
Faithful to the Constitution, Congress did not comply with the illegal order and filed a complaint with the PG. Sires and Rooney threaten our Congress “not to take steps that would undermine efforts to fight corruption” lest they face US sanctions. If they want to fight corruption and help establish the rule of law in Guatemala, they should look at the CC, the PG and most importantly at their own ambassador.
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