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Main article: 2024 Mexican judicial reform. 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 ]
Status: In force. 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 the Congress, are elected by popular vote, with each judge serving a renewable nine-year term.
10 September 2024: Protesters opposing the judicial reform bill storm the Senate building, temporarily halting the session discussing the reforms. [4] The Senate reconvenes in its former premises and passes the bill by an 86–41 vote at around 04:00 CST the following morning.
The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, [12] frequently called the "court-packing plan", [13] was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the Court had ruled unconstitutional. [14]
Reforma. Washington 629 Ote. Reforma is a Mexican newspaper based in Mexico City. It has 276,700 readers in Mexico City. [1] The paper shares content with other papers in its parent newsgroup Grupo Reforma. Reforma is named after the Mexico City avenue of the same name, Paseo de la Reforma, which is in turn named after "La Reforma", a series of ...
e. In the history of Mexico, La Reforma (from Spanish: " The Reform "), or reform laws, refers to a pivotal set of laws, including a new constitution, that were enacted in the Second Federal Republic of Mexico during the 1850s after the Plan of Ayutla overthrew the dictatorship of Santa Anna. They were intended as modernizing measures: social ...
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo [a] (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, scientist, and academic serving as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024, becoming the first woman to hold the office.
Venustiano Carranza, author of the Plan of Guadalupe. In the history of Mexico, the Plan of Guadalupe (Spanish: Plan de Guadalupe) was a political manifesto which was proclaimed on March 26, 1913, by the Governor of Coahuila Venustiano Carranza in response to the reactionary coup d'etat and execution of President Francisco I. Madero, [1] which had occurred during the Ten Tragic Days of ...