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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 ...
The following is a list of criminal justice reform organizations in the United States arranged by topic. ... This page was last edited on 29 July 2024, ...
The 2024 GOP platform makes no mention of criminal justice reform and instead pledges to "restore law and order," "stand up to Marxist Prosecutors," and "restore safety in our neighborhoods by ...
Even some Democratic-controlled states are walking back criminal justice reforms. In March the Oregon Legislature recriminalized drugs, reversing a 2020 ballot measure passed by voters.
Several Republican-dominated states like Louisiana and Kentucky have passed sweeping bills to roll back bipartisan criminal justice reforms, citing out-of-control crime, while politicians in blue ...
In October 2024, Mexico became the only legal system in the world where its judges would be elected by popular vote. [ 1 ] Its foundations can be found in Title III, Chapter IV (comprising fourteen articles) of the Constitution of Mexico and the Organic Law of the Judicial Power of the Federation .
Policies she supported during Trump’s first term were criminal justice reforms that lessened prison sentences for some relatively minor offenses. Secretary of State Richard Grenell