Pardos —in Trial— before the Third Courtroom of the Supreme Court

Abstract

Bringing the controversy raised by the granting of pardons to some of those convicted of the Procés requires an analysis of the terms in which the granting of this grace is disciplined in the Pardon Law of 1870, which is still in force, as well as the doctrine that the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court has been outlining regarding its margins for controlling its exercise by the Government. The confessedly political substance of these pardons will confront the Supreme Court with the limits of its own doctrine, thereby revealing the tensions that the maintenance of this figure imposes on the very principles of the Rule of Law.