By KELIN DILLON After nearly two years behind bars after being accused of negligent homicide by Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR) – and the accused’s uncle – Alejandro Gertz Manero, the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) granted Alejandra Morán Cuevas her plain and simple release into freedom on Monday, March 28, annulling the warrant for her arrest ordered against her and her
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 8 – International Women’s Day – the niece of Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero, Ana Paula Castillo Cuevas, presented an “expansion” of her request for her uncle’s impeachment to the Chamber of Deputies, alleging that her relative had committed gender-based violence. Recently leaked audio tapes of Gertz’ telephone conversations
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Feb. 2, Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) ordered the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) to follow through with its mandate revocation consultation as far as the confines of its predetermined annual budget will allow it, and similarly created a protective shield for the INE’s General Council members from any criminal responsibility administrative action surrounding the process.
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By KELIN DILLON In a presidential decree published in Mexico’s Official Gazette of the Federation on Monday, Nov. 22, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) determined all projects and works sanctioned by the nation’s government a matter of national security, drawing widespread criticism toward López Obrador’s continued prioritization of his favored pet projects and subsequent dwindling transparency to the
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) President Arturo Zaldívar announced on Monday, June 14, that he would have the court examine the constitutionality of his recently-approved three year term extension, now known as the Zaldívar Law. “I am beginning the procedure for the plenary session of the SCJN to determine, as soon as possible, the constitutionality of
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By KELIN DILLON The controversial law extending the term of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) President Arturo Zaldívar by three years, known as the Zaldívar Law, was published into effect on Monday, June 7, just one day after the biggest elections in Mexico’s history. The amendments to the Organic Law of the Judicial Power of the
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) asked the country’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN), Mexico’s highest judicial body, to reverse the appeal-based suspensions to his contentious electricity reform on Tuesday, April 27. López Obrador recently and controversially extended the term of the SCJN’s president Arturo Zalvídar by two years, opening the door for AMLO to potentially
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By KELIN DILLON A new survey conducted by El Financiero revealed that 62 percent of Mexicans disagree with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposal to extend Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) President Arturo Zaldívar’s term by two years, showing the general population, like many experts on the matter, disagree with AMLO’s blatant attempt to expand his power and potentially
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By KELIN DILLON The National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) coordinator of the parliamentary process in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, Pablo Gómez, has assured that there will be no two-year extension of Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) President Arturo Zaldívar’s term, despite its proposal by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). According to Gómez, even if the extension
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By KELIN DILLON Former associate Justice of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) José Ramón Cossío made known his concerns about the extent of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) knowledge of the law on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 16, following López Obrador’s public reading of a letter addressed to President of the SCJN and of the Federal
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