A sweeping change would have thousands of judges, from local courtrooms all the way up to the Supreme Court, elected instead ...
Hundreds of protesters pushed into Mexico’s Senate as lawmakers weighed a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s ...
Lawmakers in Mexico City this week began to push through ... through the Mexican legislature with the president’s political party exerting wide margins of control. Under the current law ...
MEXICO CITY — (AP ... them more loyal to their constituents or the ruling party than to the law. They also question how such massive elections could be carried out without having drug ...
Mexico is overhauling its justice system by having voters elect Supreme Court judges, but Washington has criticized the move.
Mexico’s ruling party says judges in the current court system are corrupt, and wants the country’s entire judicial branch – some 7,000 judges – to stand for election. Critics say the ...
from his own party. One PAN senator ... whose position would be subject to elections, called for Mexico's Senate to hear the voices of protesters, and called for peace. Piña “reiterates ...
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has long been critical of his country’s Supreme Court as it stood in the way of ...