Overview
- Justices Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Ricardo Lorenzetti issued the decision on March 5, following the Procuración General’s opinion.
- Judge Marcelo Martínez De Giorgi must continue the investigation into alleged illegal coercion and abuse of authority tied to a September 2024 security operation near Congress.
- The case stems from a complaint by deputy Horacio Pietragalla, who accuses Patricia Bullrich of ordering the operation in which police used the anti-picket protocol during protests over a pension mobility veto.
- Roughly thirty people, including eight journalists, were reported injured during the clashes as Bullrich monitored the operation in her role as security minister.
- An earlier attempt by Martínez De Giorgi to decline jurisdiction was rejected by the national criminal court, and the Supreme Court’s procedural ruling now clarifies that federal jurisdiction applies.