In recent years the Mexican Supreme Court has become more powerful and independent, having ruled against both the executive and legislative branches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On June 1st, Mexico held its first-ever judicial election<\/a>. As part of that election, nine judges were elected to form the new Mexican Supreme Court<\/a>, to be instated on September 1st. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Will this new court maintain judicial independence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who are the nine newly-elected justices of the Supreme Court?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chief Justice, or as they say in Spanish, Presidente de la Corte<\/em>, is to be Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, who was the biggest vote-getter on the Supreme Court ballot, receiving over 6 million votes (6,195,000). Aguilar, 51, is a lawyer and Mixtec Indian from the state of Oaxaca. Currently, he serves as indigenous rights coordinator of INPI, the\u00a0Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Ind\u00edgenas<\/em>\u00a0 Here is a list, in descending order of their votes, of the 9 newly-elected judges of the Mexican Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s important to note that before the election, the MORENA party, which is the party of President Sheinbaum and the party that runs Congress, distributed papers to voters which listed judges on the ballot recommended by MORENA. All nine winning judges, slated to serve on the new Supreme Court, were MORENA-approved, meaning it’s less likely that they are going to exhibit much judicial independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, three of the judges (Batriz, Esquivel, Ortiz) were already on the Supreme Court, having been appointed to the Court by previous MORENA president AMLO. Another judge, Maria Estela Rios Gonzalez, is a former legal advisor to AMLO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, once again, the nine Supreme Court winners were all on the MORENA recommendation sheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AMLO, moreover, did not like the Supreme Court ruling against him, and it is AMLO who engineered the judicial reform before he left the presidency on October 1st, 2024, to be replaced by Claudia Sheinbaum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can see the concern that this judicial election could be a way for MORENA to get control of the judicial branch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like the U.S.A., Mexico has three branches of its federal government – the legislative, the executive and the judicial. And, like the U.S.A., Mexico has a Supreme Court. In recent years the Mexican Supreme Court has become more powerful and … Continue reading
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( National Institute of Indigenous Peoples). Aguilar has never served as a judge before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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![MORENA<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAll nine winning judges, slated to serve on the new Supreme Court, were MORENA-approved, meaning it’s less likely that they are going to exhibit much judicial independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn fact, three of the judges (Batriz, Esquivel, Ortiz) were already on the Supreme Court, having been appointed to the Court by previous MORENA president AMLO. Another judge, Maria Estela Rios Gonzalez, is a former legal advisor to AMLO.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnd, once again, the nine Supreme Court winners were all on the MORENA recommendation sheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAMLO, moreover, did not like the Supreme Court ruling against him, and it is AMLO who engineered the judicial reform before he left the presidency on October 1st, 2024, to be replaced by Claudia Sheinbaum. <\/p>\n\n\n\nYou can see the concern that this judicial election could be a way for MORENA to get control of the judicial branch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like the U.S.A., Mexico has three branches of its federal government – the legislative, the executive and the judicial. And, like the U.S.A., Mexico has a Supreme Court. In recent years the Mexican Supreme Court has become more powerful and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[14,27,530,529,31,533,37,73,17],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-system","tag-amlo","tag-claudia-sheinbaum","tag-hugo-aguilar-ortiz","tag-judicial-elections","tag-mexican-indians","tag-mixtecs","tag-morena-party","tag-oaxaca","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morena_(political_party)#\/media\/File:Morena_logo_(Mexico)_(positive).svg\"){kind=link}