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September 11, 2024 at 6:18 AM. By Diego Oré. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Senate on Wednesday approved a judicial reform that has fueled a court workers' strike, strained relations with the ...
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.
The reform would transform the country's judiciary from an appointment-based system to one where judges are elected by popular vote. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] However, the reform was widely denounced by opposition political parties, judicial workers, and international organizations (such as Human Rights Watch [ 6 ] ), who claimed the reform would threaten ...
The Mexican Senate narrowly passed a controversial judicial reform early Wednesday, hours after protesters broke into the chamber in a chaotic scene and forced a suspension of the proceedings.
Mexican judges are raising alarms in the United States over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed judicial reform, which opponents see as a death knell for Mexican democracy. The ...
The Judiciary of Mexico, officially the Judicial Power of the Federation (Spanish: Poder Judicial de la Federación; PJF), is one of the three branches of government in Mexico, and the sole federal judiciary power. It is composed of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, which serves as its highest court, the Federal Judiciary Council, the ...
September 11, 2024 at 3:31 AM. Police were out in force as demonstrators protested against the reform [Reuters] Mexico's Senate has approved a controversial judicial reform under which judges will ...
v. t. e. The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (Spanish: Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, SCJN) is the Mexican institution serving as the country's federal high court and the spearhead organisation for the judiciary of the Mexican Federal Government. It consists of eleven magistrates, known as ministers of the court, one of whom is ...