Political analyst Luis Dávila Colón said on Wednesday, November 11, that there is "not a shred of evidence" for an allegation, attributed to anonymous sources by Edi López on Mega, that the governor was contacting Puerto Rico Supreme Court justices to obtain a ruling favorable to the government in the LUMA case. Speaking on NotiUno 630, Dávila Colón said López had reported the previous day that the governor was contacting justices to offer them benefits in exchange for that decision.
"I trust the total integrity and honesty of the nine justices of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court, including the popular ones," he said, adding that the judiciary has proven independent and honest under both red and blue judges. He said justices may differ ideologically and by party, but "our judges do not sell themselves." On LUMA’s president, who according to Dávila Colón requested an immediate investigation, he said LUMA "has done a good job, but here they messed up."
He called the claim "gossip" that can only annoy some justices. He noted that Chief Justice Maite Oronoz issued a statement saying no one can interfere with a judicial determination and expressing confidence that her colleagues will continue to fulfill their duty; Dávila Colón said that by being so brief and unemphatic, Oronoz practically let her colleagues be thrown into the middle, calling it "the revenge of the judicial reform."
He said Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz congratulated the chief justice, and that this is another case where he and Rivera Schatz hold opposing views.