The grotesque part is that he is not alone: the entire judicial corporation functions the same way, among privileges and cardboard speeches. As long as there are judges like this, the Homeland is doomed… and they toast at parties organized by mafiosos as if they were the owners of the country. A judicial caste, more of a caste than all others, selling smoke with a toga that they don't even wear and a crucifix that they soil with their judicial blasphemies. Mahiques' resignation is not ethical, it is survival. That is why judicial dignity in Argentina always appears after the front page of the newspapers. Courts that are inherited, salaries that, in filthy amounts, exceed that of a hospital director, eternal shelving of cases, international trips and solemn speeches. In reality, they are simple parasites with aristocratic pretensions, who hide in the attic the grocer grandfather who actually broke his back so they could study. Argentine justice is the only company where impunity is the internal regulation and hypocrisy is the collective agreement. If Alconada Mom had not, with his complaint, unleashed the scandal, he would continue to travel and appear in his court once a week... and, of course, dispensing 'justice' to his friends without blushing. They hand down sentences as if they were encyclicals, they receive awards as if they were national heroes, and they share privileges as if they were a patrician inheritance. The appeals court judge who traveled the world while the cases rotted in drawers is not an isolated error, it is the collective confession of a system that believes it is divine while rotting in its own arrogance. Mahiques' resignation is not an act of ethics, it is a reflex. Could it be that conscience in courts works like Wi-Fi that only activates when cameras are on? The Mahiques case is just the symptom; the disease is a justice that is inherited as a surname and exercised as luxury tourism. Before, there were no resignations, no shame, not even the slightest gesture of ethics.
