Asterix, Obelix and the progressive judges
It's 2025 AD. All the judicial resources of Hispania are occupied by the Romans... All of them? No! A small Constitutional Court of die-hard progressives still and forever resists the conservative invader. And life isn't easy for the garrisons of Roman legionaries in the fortified camps of Peinador, Marchenarium, Llarenadum, and Aguirrónum... If Asterix and Obelix never want to move the plots to Spain, the famous introduction repeated in all their albums should be something. The Constitutional Court has become a thorn in the side of a right wing accustomed to judicializing everything it can and even more so because... the prosecutor fine-tunes it for you and, if not, the judge He controls you from behind.
That's why the cover of theAbc of today, who dresses in his most solemn finery to write the front-page editorial under the enormous headline "Nefast for Spain." Laugh at 1898. The cavernous newspapers speak with total ease of the politicization of the courts, as if the actions of the same-famous magistrates didn't ooze ideological or partisan bias. "We are moving forward with firm steps toward the mutation of the constitutional order," they assert vehemently, and consider the endorsement of the amnesty "the greatest aggression committed against the letter and spirit of the 1978 Constitution." But who is the executor of that spirit? The ghost of Manuel Fraga Iribarne? The military men who made the saber-rattling heard while it was being drafted? There are two surviving fathers: Miguel Roca and Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón. Do they have the same opinion on the matter? I'd bet not. But there are newspapers that must have fallen into the cauldron when they were children, only the potion they swallowed mouthfuls of for life wasn't super strength, but super resentment.
