Mexican Senate Approves Extinction of Judicial Trusts
A handful of National Regeneration Movement senators, including former Supreme Court Justice of the Nation Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero, voted against the initiative
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Mexico’s Judicial Branch Union Moves to Temporarily Strike
Mexico’s National Union of Renewal at the Service of Workers of the Judicial Branch of the Federation called for a day of non-work on Monday in protest of massive cuts to the federal judiciary’s trusts
Read moreThe Popular Vote for Mexico’s Supreme Court Justices?
The specific work that is invoked is “The Constitution of 1857 and its Critics,” which Cosío Villegas published in 1957
Read moreLópez Obrador Accuses Judiciary of Coup against Executive
AMLO accusing the judiciary of staging a coup against the executive is treading dangerous grounds for the country
Read more20,000 Protesters March in Defense of Mexico’s Supreme Court
The protest was against AMLO’s proposal to subject the SCJN justices to an election, which is unconstitutional
Read morePlan B’s Invalidation Prompts AMLO to Seek Plan C Electoral Reform
Following the Mexican Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the first part of López Obrador’s Plan B electoral reform due to violations of the legislative process, López Obrador announced another sweeping electoral reform — known as Plan C — to the public
Read moreMexican Supreme Court Wants to Eliminate Automatic Preventive Detention
By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) is set to eliminate automatic preventive detention (jail without bail) in the country, arguing that it violates the human rights provided for in international treaties, in addition to the fact that it has been the reason for condemnation of Mexico by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). The move by the SCJN
Read moreAMLO Government Creates New 25 Billion-Peso Trust Funds
By MARK LORENZANA The Mexican government has just created three new trust funds, or “fideicomisos,” despite a decree by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in March of 2020 ordering the “extinction” of 109 trust funds to combat corruption. The beneficiaries of the three new discretionary trust funds created by the executive branch — without going through Congress — are the
Read moreBeatriz Paredes Throws Hat into Ring for 2024 Presidential Elections
By MARK LORENZANA Senator Beatriz Paredes of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) expressed her interest in seeking the presidency of Mexico in 2024 with the Va por México coalition — an electoral alliance composed of the PRI, the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — to challenge the ruling party of
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