The 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
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New York Law Group Condemns AMLO Anew for Attacks on Judiciary
The recent spate of verbal attacks by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Mexico’s Supreme Court — particularly against Chief Justice Norma Piña — has yet again earned the condemnation of the New York City Bar Association
Read morePreventive Detention, a Means of Control and Abuse in Latin America
By MARK LORENZANA In March of this year, the government of El Salvador, headed by President Nayib Bukele, declared a state of emergency after police recorded a total of 62 homicides in a single day. It marked the most violent day in 30 years for the Central American country, which has contended with criminal gangs for decades. El Salvador has
Read moreMexican 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 moreMorena Stoops to New Low in Fight to Pass Electricity Reform
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The fact that members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party have no qualms about bending — and even breaking — the law in order to achieve their goals is nothing new. We already saw this evidenced in how blatantly the party violated electoral laws in order to promote
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