Protesters Storm Mexico’s Senate After Controversial Judicial Overhaul Is Passed
- Hundreds of protesters broke into Mexico’s Senate on Tuesday, forcing a temporary recess for the senators' safety while debating a contentious judicial overhaul plan.
- Critics warn the plan to elect all judges may threaten judicial independence and undermine checks and balances.
- President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum congratulated lawmakers on the overhaul, stating it would strengthen justice and democracy in Mexico.
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Mexico’s judicial reform bill approved by 18 state legislatures
Only 24 hours after the Mexican Senate passed a controversial judicial reform bill, 18 state legislatures had already ratified the constitutional reform, opening the door for the sweeping reform to become the law of the land. During his Thursday morning press conference, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told reporters that he hoped to publish the bill on Sept. 15, the same day Mexico commences its annual Independence Day celebrations. By hi…
In Mexico, a constitutional amendment is approved by a majority of votes in state congresses. The Judicial Reform in Mexico obtained the majority of the necessary votes in 20 state congresses: Oaxaca, Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Durango, Colima, Tabasco, Veracruz, Quintana Roo, Baja California, Morelos, Yucatán, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Campeche, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Zacatecas, Tamaulipas, State of Mexico, Sonora. ALSO READ: Congresses from nine states…
Mexico City.- Deputies of the PAN sued the president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), Rosario Piedra Ibarra, to exercise her power and file a constitutional controversy against judicial reform. The legislators symbolically closed the headquarters of the organization and placed a crown in front of its main entrance with the legend “CNHD Dead Letter”. Héctor Saúl Téllez accused Piedra Ibarra of having been ignored in the face of th…
The trajectory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's judicial reform is told in chapters. After its approval by the majority of Morena in both chambers of the federal Congress, the next step was for it to be ratified by at least 17 of the country's 32 states —half plus one—, because it was an amendment to the Constitution. On a political board in which the ruling bloc, formed by Morena, PVEM and PT, governs 24 entities, the ratification of the reform…
The corollary of a column by José Woldenberg (“Narcissus and Echo”) made me reflect. “I am afraid - he says - that the relations between Narcissus and his echoes are ushering in a long night”. I hope — I thought — that the night won't be so long because it's always good to hear other voices, as long as they're not discordant. I don't usually like chorifeos, let alone dissonant resonances, which transform harmony into simple noise. In the debate …
After endorsement by the Guerrero Congress, judicial reform reached approval requirements in 17 state congresses.
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