Perhaps the most famous investigating magistrate of all, Spain’s Baltasar Garzon, is usually portrayed as waging a borderless crusade for justice. His targets, however, almost invariably come from the political right. But rather than pursuing such an open ideological agenda, most activist magistrates tend to act as a corporation: their motives can be politicized, but their professional, guild interests come first.
Au lieu de suivre un ordre du jour aussi clairement idéologique, la plupart des magistrats militants tendent à agir comme une corporation : même si leurs objectifs paraissent partisans, leurs intérêts, corporatistes, l’emportent.