Days after hikes ruling, Two of President’s nominees now sit on the nation’s highest tribunal Monday, August 22, 2016 Rosenkrantz joins Supreme Court, resetting its alignmentMauricio Macri’s Supreme Court nominee Carlos Rosenkrantz will be sworn-in at the nation’s highest court today, expanding the number of sitting judges to five and potentially altering its composition in the president’s favour, just days after his government was handed a major setback by the same court. But with the new Supreme Court justice’s swearing-in, this chapter has been finally closed. On March 15, Rosenkrantz’s appointment to Supreme Court passed the Senate’s Appointments Committee. There were also calls to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court. The two main objections to Rosenkrantz’s appointment was his having litigated for the Clarín Group against the State, and for having initially accepted this appointment as a Supreme Court justice via presidential decree.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald August 22, 2016 02:48 UTC