They ask for a per saltum so that the Court decides on the constitutionality of Milei's decree that brought Ariel Lijo to court

The NGO Red de Mujeres para la Justicia, which brings together female judges from across the country, requested on Wednesday a per saltum (jump to the next instance) so that the Court can directly resolve its request for unconstitutionality of the decree of President Javier Milei that placed Ariel Lijo and Manuel García-Mansilla in the Supreme Court by decree and commission.

Through his attorney Francisco Verbic, in the file "Appeal Salto Instancia No. 2 - "NETWORK WOMEN FOR JUSTICE AND OTHERS v. HONORABLE CHAMBER OF SENATORS OF THE NATION AND ANOTHER s/ AMPARO LAW 16,986" (CAF 010637/2024/2), pending before this Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. The network is chaired by Judge María Eugenia Chapero.

Unlike CEPIS, which requested a precautionary measure in the first instance, this association requested the direct involvement of the Court in a case that is already open and further complicates the designation of Milei's candidates, judicial sources explained to Clarín.

The network had been objecting to the fact that a woman was not included to replace Elena de Highton, but now it directly attacked the content of President Javier Milei's decree.

In its new presentation, to which Clarín had access, the association stated that “we hereby come to denounce as a new fact , of absolute institutional gravity, the issuance of Decree 137/2025 (signed on 02/25/2025 and published in the BO of 02/26/2025), by which Drs. Manuel García-Mansilla and Ariel Lijo were appointed “on commission” as judges of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (CSJN or “the Court”).”

Based on this new fact, he requested " the urgent processing of the extraordinary appeal for instance skipping filed on 08/26/2024, pending resolution for exactly six months, as well as the presentations of friends of the court (amicus curiae) made by numerous institutions and groups of people within the framework of the provisions of art. 9 of Agreement 7/2013."

Furthermore, the “absolute and incurable unconstitutionality and nullity of Decree 137/2025 is declared, as it is contrary to various fundamental principles of our legal system and as it violates international conventions, the right to equality, the right to non-discrimination and the principle of progressiveness.”

It also requests that "an urgent precautionary measure be issued to suspend the effects of said administrative act, preventing the swearing-in and effective possession of the positions by those appointed until the underlying issue is resolved, given the very serious and irreparable institutional damage that this would cause."