Harper Lee writes in To Kill a Mockingbird, evoking a court case from her childhood in Alabama, that the courts have their faults, like all human institutions, but they are still the great levellers, for to them all men they are born equal Democracy is based on principles like these, not only in the United States, but in countries that respect freedoms.
For this reason, the fact that the concept of lawfare (judicial war) appeared in the document signed by JxCat and the PSOE in Waterloo is reckless. Among other reasons why socialists have always rejected the State, through the courts, dedicating itself to persecuting politicians. By the way, lawfare is a term that has been used by Donald Trump on Twitter when justice has asked him for explanations about his irregular activities, public and private.
The Spanish Government assures that the term is not in the draft of the amnesty law, despite the fact that it appears in the announcement of the investiture agreement. The pact envisages that the causes that could be left out of the measure of grace could be examined in investigative commissions in Congress to investigate the lawfare. Puigdemont's lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, one of the ideologues of the proposal, could be added to the amnesty, despite the fact that the case he has open is for money laundering.
The State Government should be concerned that the four associations of judges and the other four of the prosecutors, from the most conservative to the most progressive, showed their rejection of the references to lawfare, while denouncing that it would be a interference with judicial independence subjecting judicial procedures and decisions to parliamentary review. The PSOE tried to put out the fire by blowing: "There will be no revisions of judgments nor will the judges be audited".
The Financial Times has defended the amnesty as a correct and convenient solution, but it has never spoken of violating justice. Harper Lee also wrote that in this life you don't need to be an idealist and firmly believe in the integrity of our courts, but neither should we cheerfully question them.
