While the representatives of the sovereign people seem to be in a schoolyard, determined to make each one more indispensable than the others for the good of this country, Magistrate Samantha Romero humbly and professionally assumes the mandate of article 117 of the Constitution, the one that tells us that justice emanates from the people, from all of us. Yes, that Constitution that was born from the consensus of all. Consensus that seems so unthinkable these days.
And although that same article of the Constitution tells us that justice is administered in the name of the King, the Magistrate leaves her skin in the arduous task of judging, with total independence, and oblivious to pressures, no more and no less, than the sister of the person in whose name justice is administered.
Immersed in such a great task, under that robe, there is a woman who probably before starting the sessions of the hearing has had to make breakfast for her children, take them to school, and who probably, after the hearing will have to help her children with their homework, take them to the doctor, or to their extracurricular activities; as if the Noos case were not complex enough to not be able to dedicate even a second to anything, or anyone else.
That Magistrate's robe carries the weight of a State of Law that even with the Courts paralyzed, and with a Government in functions, works.
Dichotomies of life, if Infanta Cristina is called from school because one of her children is sick, she will not lack someone to take care of them. If the same thing happened to Judge Samantha, the Rule of Law could not wait even a second for the mother under that robe to suspend the trial to pick up a minor from school. Minor who does not understand the weight and responsibility of the robe that her mother wears in her job, because she only sees a mother. Only, and no more and no less, than a mother, than a woman.
Magistrates, Prosecutors, Lawyers, not in vain the word robe is of the feminine gender.
Tomás Silvera Cabrera, President of the Young Lawyers of Lanzarote.
