Mexico’s First Female Supreme Court Chief Justice Named
Monday’s election required three voting rounds before Piña earned the six out of 11 votes she needed to take the SCJN presidency
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US Supreme Court Stays Lifting of Title 42
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just hours before Title 42, a Donald Trump-era measure that requires undocumented migrants seeking political asylum in the United States to remain in Mexico while awaiting a court decision on their eligibility, was due to expire, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts temporarily extended the measure late Monday, Dec. 19. The last-minute ruling blocks the pandemic-era border
Read moreMexico City Bullfight Season Canceled Indefinitely
PULSE NEWS MEXICO To the chagrin of many and the satisfaction of others, Mexico City’s long-awaited 2022-2023 bullfighting season has been suspended permanently, the country’s largest bull ring, Plaza México, announced Wednesday, Nov. 30. In a written statement, Plaza México said that the season had been canceled “due to a definitive suspension granted by a judge against bullfighting in the country’s
Read moreMexican Supreme Court Rules AMLO’s Military Decree Constitutional
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Supreme Court (SCJN) ruled Tuesday, Nov. 29, that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) decree ordering the nation’s military to participate in public security work through 2024 is constitutional. During its Tuesday session, the SCJN, which is led by AMLO cohort and rubber-stamper Arturo Zaldívar, ruled that the recently approved National Guard Law allows the
Read moreGreen Sprouts and Dark Clouds for North American Ties
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreMexico’s Supreme Court under Seige
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,
Read moreNew York Bar Association Accuses AMLO of Judicial Interference
By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 1, the New York City Bar Association released a statement accusing the actions of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) continued public threats against Mexican judges who rule against him as violating international law and the legal standards for judicial independence as outlined by the Mexican Constitution, the American Convention on Human Rights
Read moreThe Weight of the President’s Words
OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Former Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos was visiting a capital in the southeast of the country. As he got off the plane, the governor showed him the eight columns of a local newspaper that criticized the president. “What is this idiot (an obesity was actually used instead of the word “idiot”) thinking?” said López Mateos in
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreUS Senators Lodge Complaint against AMLO for Judicial Abuse
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four members of the U.S. Senate, led by Bob Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, April 6,stating that there is mounting evidence that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is attacking the
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