Iván Evair Saldaña
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 18, 2024, p. 8
The judicial reform caused a barrage of challenges before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) that is increasing, since until yesterday there were at least 41 appeals promoted by judicial and political actors against the changes to the federal Constitution – including the amendment of constitutional supremacy
– and laws that regulate future elections of judges, magistrates and ministers.
According to a list from the high court, of which he obtained a copy The Daythere are nine unconstitutionality actions, eight constitutionality controversies and 24 appeals, pending consultations and files derived from attraction requests. No appeal has been approved in favor of the promoters and most were dismissed or are pending.
This weekend, Minister Norma Lucía Piña Hernández handed over to different ministers four new unconstitutionality actions related to the judicial amendment.
These are three from the Citizen Movement (MC): one against the decree of last October 14 that reformed the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (Legipe), handed over to Minister Jorge Mario Pardo Rebolledo; the second, against the decree of October 15 that modifies the General Law of the System of Means of Challenge in Electoral Matters, handed over to Minister Alberto Pérez Dayán. Both, regarding the election of judging persons.
The third action of MC challenges the decree of last October 31 on the reform of constitutional articles 105 and 107 regarding the contestability of additions or reforms to the Magna Carta, which is known as supremacy constitution
. It was sent to the presentation of Minister Juan Luis González Alcántara Carrancá.
The fourth action was promoted by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and was also handed over to Pardo Rebolledo, because just as MC challenges the latest changes in the Legipe.
The other five unconstitutionality actions promoted by PAN, PRI, MC, legislators from Zacatecas and a local party from Coahuila were already resolved on November 5, through the project of Minister González Alcántara, which was dismissed due to not reaching the required qualified majority vote.
In the case of the eight constitutional controversies, Minister González Alcántara dismissed and dismissed them, by applying the criterion of constitutional supremacy
. These resources were promoted by local authorities of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of the states of Guanajuato, Chihuahua, Michoacán and Jalisco.
However, there are resources pending resolution, such as the ongoing consultations promoted by the country’s judges and magistrates, which are in the hands of ministers Yasmín Esquivel Mossa and Loretta Ortiz Ahlf.
There are other resources that ask the Court to hear and resolve any controversy between the different judicial instances, such as the one promoted by the Jufed (National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation) and a group of judges with the in order to clarify which body has the jurisdiction to review the suspensions against the judicial reform that have been issued by courts and tribunals. This matter was turned over to Minister Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena.
