{"id":26822,"date":"2010-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/the-supreme-court-sheep-or-wolf\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:37:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:37:48","slug":"the-supreme-court-sheep-or-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-supreme-court-sheep-or-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court: sheep or wolf?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL RESPALDO DE URIBE AL ASILO DE su directora de inteligencia redonde\u00f3 la imagen de la Corte Suprema que el uribismo le ha querido vender al pa\u00eds: la de un tribunal partidista, compuesto por jueces cuyas togas son apenas la piel de oveja que cubre a feroces lobos pol\u00edticos.<\/p>\n<p>Ya muchos han se\u00f1alado las contradicciones jur\u00eddicas y pol\u00edticas del asilo, y de un uribismo posando de caperucita roja. Pero poco se ha dicho sobre las contradicciones f\u00e1cticas de semejante imagen de la Corte Suprema.<\/p>\n<p>Si se mira con un m\u00ednimo rigor emp\u00edrico qui\u00e9nes son los magistrados de la Corte, se ve lo absurdo de la tesis de la \u201cpolitizaci\u00f3n de la Corte\u201d. Porque la realidad es que el magistrado promedio es un personaje taciturno hasta rozar el hermetismo, tradicional hasta rayar en el conservadurismo. Mejor dicho: la ant\u00edpoda del animal pol\u00edtico \u2014locuaz, activista y vengativo\u2014 del cuento uribista.<\/p>\n<p>Lo digo con conocimiento de causa. Fui alumno de varios ex magistrados y, adem\u00e1s de su profesionalismo y rectitud, lo que m\u00e1s recuerdo es el poder sopor\u00edfero de sus lecciones. En ese entonces, no entend\u00eda c\u00f3mo alguien pod\u00eda hablar con t\u00e9rminos como \u201cen trat\u00e1ndose de\u201d o \u201cempero\u201d. Eran los profesores (todos hombres) que llegaban siempre con corbata al cuello y c\u00f3digo en la mano y que, en medio de la efervescencia del cambio constitucional de 1991, tild\u00e1bamos de practicantes del \u201cviejo derecho\u201d por su formalismo y su apego a la letra de la ley.<\/p>\n<p>Si pasamos de la an\u00e9cdota al an\u00e1lisis, se entiende mejor este singular personaje. A la Corte se asciende por una ruta tan predecible como impermeable. En lugar de la arriesgada y zigzagueante carrera del pol\u00edtico, la del magistrado sigue la trayectoria paciente de jueces como Mar\u00eda del Rosario Gonz\u00e1lez, la presidenta de la Sala Penal, que lleva los casos contra los escuderos de Uribe y que, como tal, deber\u00eda ser la muestra m\u00e1s pura del juez politizado. La verdad es todo lo contrario. Como la mayor\u00eda de sus colegas, Gonz\u00e1lez ha hecho la carrera judicial, escalando lentamente los pelda\u00f1os que van de un juzgado municipal de provincia a un tribunal departamental y, finalmente, a la Corte.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfC\u00f3mo ha sido engendrada esta singular especie, cuyos genes parecen resistentes a las amenazas, las chuzadas y el soborno? La raz\u00f3n es de dise\u00f1o institucional: la Corte es radicalmente independiente porque, desde mediados del siglo pasado, sus miembros son elegidos por los propios magistrados con base en m\u00e9ritos jur\u00eddicos. En otras palabras, son una tecnocracia basada en la ley.<\/p>\n<p>Como todas las endogamias, \u00e9sta tiene sus problemas. Pero no hay duda de que ha creado una corte independiente que, junto con la Constitucional, salv\u00f3 el Estado de derecho en el gobierno anterior. Puede ser que los magistrados de la Corte Suprema no sean tan innovadores como habr\u00edamos querido los que en su momento los criticamos por encarnar el \u201cviejo derecho\u201d. Pero el tiempo les ha dado la raz\u00f3n y ha mostrado que, para mantener un Estado de derecho, es necesaria cierta dosis de formalismo. En tiempos normales, la rutina del legalismo es el contrapeso al v\u00e9rtigo de la pol\u00edtica. Y en circunstancias pol\u00edticas extremas, quienes lo defienden con valent\u00eda se convierten en un obst\u00e1culo tan inc\u00f3modo para los violentos y los poderosos, que los jueces terminan en la mira, como sucedi\u00f3 en la toma y contratoma del Palacio de Justicia, o en la persecuci\u00f3n contra la Corte en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p>Una de las haza\u00f1as del uribismo \u2014con su alergia a las tecnocracias y su l\u00f3gica de amigo-enemigo\u2014 fue haber provocado a algunos magistrados a entrar en el debate pol\u00edtico. Pero las circunstancias han cambiado. As\u00ed que es tiempo de que los impert\u00e9rritos jueces vuelvan a lo suyo: elijan fiscal, dejen que sus fallos hablen por ellos y retornen a su heroica reserva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URIBE&#8217;S SUPPORT TO THE ASYLUM of his intelligence director rounded the image of the Supreme Court that he and his followers had wanted to sell the country: that of a partisan court, composed of judges whose robes are just the sheepskin covering ferocious wolf politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Supreme Court: sheep or wolf? 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