Plan C ‘Legally, Morally Valid,’ Says AMLO
AMLO said that it is “legally and morally valid” for the next head of the National Electoral Institute “to sympathize with Morena,” which is essentially what his Plan C is all about
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Mexican Supreme Court Maintains Pretrial Detention
By MARK LORENZANA Four justices of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) on Monday, Sept. 5, refused to approve, as presented, a proposal that seeks to eliminate forced preventive detention (jail without bail) in the country. The judges who categorically rejected the proposal were Justices Yasmin Esquivel, Loretta Ortiz and Alberto Pérez Dayan, while on the last
Read moreAMLO Chides Judges for Being ‘Disobedient’
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Apparently unaware the fact that Mexican law still provides for a separation of powers and that the judicial system does not take orders from the executive branch, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Sept. 2, chided the nation’s Supreme Court (SCJN) justices for not approving and rubberstamping the decisions and reforms made by his government.
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