Pokey looms for former senior Italian justice official … Leaking damaging documents backfires … Prison anarchist at the centre of the tempest … Case heads to the Cassazione … Silvana Olivetti in Rome with the latest judicial-political grief

Pardons, politics, and prostitutes … Meloni’s untethered rant … Shady dealings behind a presidential pardon for Berlusconi’s procurer … The Cipriani connection … Scandalo … From our Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti

Italian politics … Presidential pardon for Berlusconi’s bunga bunga favourite … Aiding and abetting prostitution …Offender entirely rehabilitated … Silvana Olivetti with news from Rome

Dramatic defeat for Meloni’s referendum … Government in disarray … Purging the culprits … Unsavoury connections … Silvana Olivetti with her Rome Notebook

Plan to strip investigating magistrates of independence … Constitutional referendum looms … “Yes” case getting weaker … Setbacks for Meloni … The shadow of Trump … Who is financing the campaigns? … What are the voters thinking? … Silvana Olivetti files

Italy’s law year opens to protests … Prosecuting magistrates under political pressure … Si and No campaigns for constitutional change … Latest poll … ICE on hand for US athletes at Winter Olympics … Silvana Olivetti writes

Independence of the Italian prosecutors struck down by the Senate … Referendum looms … Bent politicians and their supporters celebrate … Judges and Magistrates seen as “enemies of the people” … Judiciary warned to back off … Silvana Olivetti files

Fresh developments … Berlusconi’s “heavenly victory” … Prosecuting magistrates in peril as politicians invade the patch … Uproar in parliament as vote passes on its way to the Senate … Referendum looms … Silvana Olivetti with the latest