Tag Archives: Arturo Zalvídar

Mexican Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Zalvídar Law

By KELIN DILLON Nearly seven months after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposal to extend the country’s Supreme Court (SCJN) Chief Justice Arturo Zalvídar’s term of office passed through Congress, the SCJN’s Plenary unanimously rejected the so-called “Zalvídar Law” for its unconstitutionality on Tuesday, Nov. 16. The law was set to extend Zalvídar’s seat on the SCJN by

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AMLO Tells Supreme Court to Reverse Electricity Reform Suspensions

By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) asked the country’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN), Mexico’s highest judicial body, to reverse the appeal-based suspensions to his contentious electricity reform on Tuesday, April 27. López Obrador recently and controversially extended the term of the SCJN’s president Arturo Zalvídar by two years, opening the door for AMLO to potentially

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