The Judicial Branch strikers “defend their privileges”: AMLO

Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia

The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, September 4, 2024, p. 6

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador affirmed that the strikers of the Judicial Branch defend their privileges.

At yesterday’s morning conference he expressed his disagreement with the strike in the judicial sector, although he stressed that They are in their right both those who participated in the work stoppage and those who yesterday blocked access to the Chamber of Deputies to prevent the debate on the reform of that power.

When told that the staff of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation decided to join the strike – initiated by employees of the Judicial Branch on August 19 and later joined by judges – the president responded: Well, yes, they are within their rights. Imagine, they have to defend their privileges..

–They closed the accesses to the Chamber of Deputies – it was proposed to him.

–Yes, they are also within their rights.

He regretted that even when there is no activity in the judicial sector, judges continue to determine the so-called Saturdayswhich is why he insisted on the need to reform that power.

“When they said they were going to strike, I was even happy, because I said: there won’t be any more.” Saturdays“They are not going to get criminals out of jail, they are not going to continue protecting organized crime criminals or white-collar thieves. No.”

He gave examples of two cases that had previously been presented by the Undersecretary of Public Security, Luis Rodríguez Bucio.

One, about a judge’s decision to return between 10 and 15 luxury cars to an organized crime gang, and that of another judge who protected a person who, without proving itclaims to be the owner of a piece of land that was allegedly affected by the Isthmus Corridor, but referring to a case from 1908. Yes, you have to keep cleaning, even if they get angry..

Undersecretary Rodríguez Bucio exposed the two federal judges who granted suspensions in favor of their colleagues against the legislative process on the constitutional reform in question.

The intention, the official said, is that the Congress of the Union will not discuss or give legislative process to the ruling.

These are the fifth district judge in Morelos, Martha Eugenia Magaña López, and the third district judge of amparo and federal trials in Chiapas, Felipe V. Consuelo Soto, who granted suspensions under the arguments of avoiding damages and losses of difficult or impossible to repair.

In the first case, he noted, Judge Magaña López granted the suspension one day after the appeal was filed and in her resolution He mentioned that he was acting in protest against attacks on judicial independence.The decision would mean that the bill cannot be discussed or voted on by the Chamber of Deputies.

On the other hand, Judge Consuelo Soto granted, on the same day the case was filed, to other federal judges an ex officio suspension to avoid damages and losses. difficult repair.

Rodríguez Bucio pointed out that in this case, The effects of the suspension would be for Congress to refrain from sending the opinion to the legislatures of the states and Mexico City for approval until the definitive suspension is resolved in this protection..