The appearance of Trump before the judge gave rise to a series of outbursts by the former president against the judicial “authoritas”. He questioned the security of the United States because of his justice. He dismissed the judicial results as predictable. It is not that he said it with the desire to praise judicial impartiality. Rather, he suggested the opposite: arbitrariness. He took pleasure, then, in the judicial discredit.
It is the same line that certain Spanish politicians have undertaken dangerously: they launch themselves to discredit the judges whom they label as sectarian, biased and foolish. Without realizing that with this kind of criticism they discredit not only themselves, but also the democratic system, which they put at risk with their disrespect.
Faced with this, what matters is judicial credit. The existence of a judiciary that does not fall into the trap of these criticisms and that, on the contrary, sticks to resolving disputes, in a proper way, on time (delayed justice is not justice); and above all, without further submission than to the rule of law.
MIRA: [OPINIÓN] Sonia Chirinos: “Money can’t do everything”
It is true that when the legislator legislates badly, the judiciary can do little, but that little to do is a great task: resolve in accordance with the invariable democratic principles: equality, freedom and security. Principles that, not because they are repeated, are meaningless.
“Without equality there is no justice”, said Juan Luis Vives, a Valencian humanist, philosopher, psychologist and educator from the 16th century. Another Vives, from the 20th century, Tomás, also from Valencia, my teacher and exceptional jurist, made these principles a law of legal creation and interpretation. That is why he will always be remembered as the man who made a decisive contribution to strengthening the Spanish rule of law.