Commentator Luis Dávila Colón, on his show En la Mirilla, criticized the campaign by law professors urging Governor Jenniffer González to veto the judicial reform project, amid the exchange of accusations between Senate President Tomás Rivera Schatz and the chief justice of the Supreme Court. Dávila Colón said about 100 law school professors signed a petition asking the governor to veto the measure, and argued that most of them respond to the same political current.
You are talking about democracy and due process of law. Don't you remember how you were appointed and put on the Fast Track without a hearing?
He said the controversy intensified after the Senate president sent a message to the chief justice questioning how she herself reached her position, quoting Rivera Schatz: "You are talking about democracy and due process of law. Don’t you remember how you were appointed and put on the Fast Track without a hearing?" The governor has not publicly said whether she will sign or veto the measure; Dávila Colón described her as "picking petals off a daisy" despite this being a programmatic and ideological commitment, and though bets favor a veto, he said "I’m not so sure of that."
He claimed that in 74 years no chief justice or courts administrator has been a statehooder, although plebiscites show 59% of the population supports statehood, and said he documented the dispute in his 2003, 400-page book "Justicia Roja" about politization and corruption in the judiciary by the Popular Party.