Meanwhile, opposition party members argued that Morena-allied retired SCJN ministers who hold positions in the current government still benefit from their retirement pensions
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However, López Obrador’s National Regeneration Movement does not have sufficient votes between itself and its allies to pass the proposed 20 constitutional changes into law
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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 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
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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
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The Impunity Law is intended to curtail the power of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation and severely limit its ability to issue judgments against Mexico’s political parties and deputies’ individual actions
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The course taken by Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) last week on the issue of preventive detention (pre-trial detention without bail) is one more example of how the country’s highest court has been tainted by politics and how its justices have abdicated their responsibility to politicians. The debate over the use of preventive detention,
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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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