If the reform passes, judicial elections would take place next year after a period of campaigning. About 7,000 judges would be required to battle for their seats, or turn the gavel over to the ...

Mexico’s recent Senate approval of a far-reaching judicial reform has ignited a heated debate among legal experts, judges, and international observers. This reform, backed by the ruling party ...

Mexico could soon become the world's first country to elect every single one of its judges, even on the Mexican supreme court. Will it combat corruption or is it a political power grab?

The constitutional reform is controversial because it completely remakes Mexico's judiciary. One side says it will end corruption, the other that it will end judicial independence.

MEXICO CITY — The lower house of Mexico’s Congress approved a radical reform of the judicial system on Wednesday — a constitutional amendment that has raised alarms in Washington and in the ...

The judicial reform will be the first taken up by Congress, Monreal said. Thousands of judicial workers in Mexico are on strike protesting the proposed reform.

Judges in Mexico used to be appointed. Now all state and federal judges, including justices on the Supreme Court, will be elected. Mexico will become the first nation with an all-elected judiciary ...

The goal is to preserve judicial independence and prevent politicization. Mexico's proposed model -- a direct, large-scale, nationwide election of judges at all levels, including the Supreme Court ...

This past fall, Mexico’s government enacted the 2024 Mexican Judicial Reform, a major piece of legislation that fundamentally changed how every judge, magistrate and supreme court justice is chosen, ...

If the reform passes, judicial elections would take place next year after a period of campaigning. About 7,000 judges would be required to battle for their seats, or turn the gavel over to the ...