By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Jan. 10, relatives of Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero plead their case before the president of the Supreme Court Justice (SCJN), begging for the release of their 68-year-old mother, Gertz’s niece, who the Attorney General’s Office had imprisoned for the supposed negligent homicide of her father and Gertz’s blood brother, who died in
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By KELIN DILLON Just more than a week after Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) opened an investigation into six councilors of the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) on Dec. 24 for their role in postponing the proposed revocation mandate, INE President Lorenzo Córdova requested the FGR to close the investigation, claiming it was based on “clearly nonexistent alleged
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) voted to postpone its public referendum on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) mandate, the Supreme Court ordered the institute to continue on with the popular vote in a ruling on Wednesday, Dec. 22. The process, which has been wrought with controversy since its inception, as a number of
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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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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Oct. 25, Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) ruled to remove preventative detention in the country for financial crimes, including smuggling, tax fraud and the sale of false invoices, saying it violates the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. Under the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), a 2019 reform to Mexico’s Article 19
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, Aug. 10, Mexican Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro declared that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial reform to Mexico’s Electricity Industry Law (LIE) is unconstitutional and therefore should not proceed, calling it expensive and dirty in the process. Gómez Fierro previously froze the reform in March for further review on its constitutionality, much
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By KELIN DILLON A qualified majority of Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) on Monday, June 28, ruled that there can be no absolute prohibition of marijuana for recreational use within the country, after taking just one hour and a half to deliberate on the issue, essentially legalizing cannabis in Mexico. The ruling struck down Articles 235 and 247 of the General
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