[Opinion] Judge Marchena Joins a Book on the Offensive Against the Executive

Judge Manuel Marchena likes photography. Every year, for Christmas, he sends his WhatsApp contacts a gallery of images of the Supreme Court taken with his latest generation mobile phone. The portraits—of the courtrooms, of the offices still presided over by great crucifixes, even of the evenings of Madrid—seem inspired by the word solemnity. Nothing to do with the cover of the book that the judge—until last December president of the Second Chamb…

Judge Manuel Marchena, one of the historic figures of the Spanish judiciary, has never had any problem expressing his opinion, although he has occasionally attempted to shift it toward a more neutral stance in order to project the most objective image possible. This has certainly not been the image he conveys in his latest book, where he is unscrupulous in his attacks on the Spanish government and its president, Pedro Sánchez, although he only e…