A delegation from the Supreme Court (SCJ) visited the Senate yesterday to deliver to Congress the message that it cannot complete its mission of modernizing and restoring credibility to the Dominican justice system if does not recieve the full RD$960 million budget it originally requested. The SCJ delegation, led by first substitute for the SCJ President, Rafael Luciano Pichardo, declared the RD$610 million proposed by the Executive Branch as inadequate to the tasks facing the Court. If it does not receive the budget amount it originally requested, the Court will "have its hands and feet tied" and the modernization of the Dominican justice system will suffer.
