Elisa Beni, lawyer and one of the best known voices of judicial analysis in Spain, has ignited the media debate after denouncing in social networks her dismissal from eldiario.es. As she has explained this Wednesday, the break with the masthead directed by Ignacio Escolar comes after she publicly defended the Supreme Court in relation to the criticisms that arose after the sentence of the trial against Álvaro García Ortiz.
The jurist assures that, after “more than a decade writing two columns a week“, her readers will no longer find new articles of hers on the platform. Beni maintains that her departure is due to the fact that they consider her opinion on the controversy that has surrounded several magistrates of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court to be “a disdain for the headline“.
A polemic to defend the Supreme Court: the origin of the conflict
Beni explains that the trigger was his position regarding the information that questioned the participation of magistrates in courses organized by the Madrid Bar Association (ICAM). This institution is part of the accusation in the judicial process against former Attorney General García Ortiz, which gave rise to accusations of alleged incompatibilities.
Dear readers, since many of you were kind enough to be one: After more than a decade writing two columns a week in eldiario, tomorrow you will no longer read me. The reason for my dismissal is that they consider my opinion in networks about the insidiousness of the…
– Elisa Beni (@elisabeni) November 26, 2025
The lawyer, however, categorically rejects this reading: “The reason for my dismissal is that they consider my opinion in networks about the insidiousness of tarnishing or invalidating judges of Court II for a course for public defenders as contempt for the head of the court“.
According to his complaint, the newspaper elevated to news an issue that, in his opinion, did not have the relevance it was intended to have. He even goes further by stating that, in his opinion, it was probably published “to discredit the Supreme Court for issuing a sentence that they do not like“.
“Militancy forces a card-carrying truth”: Beni lashes out at editorial line
The message disseminated by the lawyer in social networks includes a broader reflection on freedom of opinion and the requirement of ideological alignment in the media. Beni regrets that, under the logic she detects in her dismissal, any collaborator would be “prevented from tweeting or saying anything that would makeany of her headersuncomfortable“.
“Militancy obliges to a truth of card. What a difficult Spain Sánchez leaves us! “, he states harshly. The phrase has not taken long to go viral and revive the political discussion in networks.
The lawyer also anticipates that there will be attempts to discredit her: “Now they will try to make me look like a paid careerist“, but she maintains that in reality what they are looking for is “tostrangle me so that I fold and do not dissent“. Although she affirms that she is not offended, she admits that “I am deeply saddened“.
The context: a media trial and a key witness in the newsroom
Beni also introduces an element that, in his opinion, could explain the growing tension within the digital newspaper. He recalls that José Precedo, a journalist who was a witness during the trial and who testified that García Ortiz did not leak the controversial message between Alberto González Amador’s lawyer and the prosecutor Julián Salto, works in the staff.
This indirect connection, together with the informative treatment given by the newspaper, would have contributed to the internal uneasiness that ended up breaking the professional relationship.
“I do believe in him”: the journalist vindicates the media’s slogan
One of the most commented moments of her statement is when Beni appeals directly to the motto of eldiario.es, “journalism, despite everything”. The judicial analyst maintains that she has believed in that principle during all these years: “I do believe in it (…) and I have been very free in that newspaper until it began to claim the militancy of the souls“.
The lawyer concludes her message by stressing that the editorial line has changed to the point of demanding homogeneous positions among her collaborators, something that she claims has never happened before in her long career as a columnist.
