Silvana Giudici attempts to modify a law to prevent officials convicted of corruption offenses of being pardoned

The ex-president called the Supreme Court a ‘puppet triumvirate’ that ‘obeyed the order given by economic powers’

The former president cited her age, past presidency, and the prior assassination attempt against her as justification

Lázaro Báez was serving a sentence for money laundering under house arrest

The former president, whose six-year sentence in a corruption probe was ratified by the Supreme Court, could request house arrest due to her age

The ruling means Argentina’s former president has exhausted her appeals and her sentence will take effect

If her corruption conviction is upheld, she will have exhausted her appeals and face a six-year jail term plus a ban on holding public office

Argentina’s justices will announce their decision in the coming weeks — almost certainly triggering bids to expand the nation’s top court

The office argued that the president was ‘acting as an economist and not as a public official’