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The 2024 Mexican judicial reform is a series of constitutional amendments that restructured the judiciary of Mexico. [1] The reform replaced Mexico's appointment-based system for selecting judges with one where judges, pre-selected by Congress, are elected by popular vote, with each judge serving a renewable nine-year term.
On 5 February 2024, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed a judicial reform, claiming it would root out corruption in the judiciary, which he had previously criticized as being controlled by a minority, complicit in white-collar crime, and influenced by external actors. [2] The plan was then supported by his successor, Claudia ...
Intending to reform the criminal justice system, they passed bills aimed at moving police funds to other entities or changing the way police pursue suspects after George Floyd's murder.
The Justice Department (DOJ) alleges that since at least 2012, more than a quarter of the people due to be released from Louisiana prisons have instead been held past their release dates.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (Spanish: Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, SCJNG) is the Mexican institution serving as the country's federal high court and the spearhead organisation for the judiciary of the Mexican Federal Government. Judges of the SCJN are appointed for 15 years. [1]
The 2024 election results in California include the passage of a tough-on-crime ballot measure, along with confirmed or likely defeats for two progressive district attorneys and an initiative to ...
Criminal justice reform seeks to address structural issues in criminal justice systems such as racial profiling, police brutality, overcriminalization, mass incarceration, and recidivism. Criminal justice reform can take place at any point where the criminal justice system intervenes in citizens’ lives, including lawmaking , policing, and ...
Headlines and pundits will undoubtedly declare this the end of the criminal justice reform era. But that would be too hasty. While the approval of Proposition 36 and the loss of two reform-minded ...