Iván Evair Saldaña
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, p. 8
Faced with pressure from protesters and the relevance of the issues, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) yesterday withdrew four projects from its discussion list and corrected a mistake last week by the Secretary General of Agreements, Daniel Álvarez Toledo, who approved a project that was rejected.
At the beginning of the session, the withdrawal of two proposals from Minister Yasmín Esquivel was announced, corresponding to the protections under review 424/2025 and 446/2025, which prohibited the Attorney General’s Office from securing properties without a court order. The issues arise from a case of properties in Santa Fe intervened without a mandate, under the argument of the Public Ministry that they are property of the nation.
Likewise, a project was published by Minister María Estela Ríos González, 127/2025, which proposes considering that court orders are not necessary for the securing of properties because it is a preventive measure.
The fourth matter withdrawn was from Ríos González regarding the contradiction of criteria 39/2025, related to evictions in Mexico City, after protests outside the Court that caused a delay of almost two hours in the session.
Members of the CDMX Youth Housing and Anti-Gentrification fronts blocked – for the first time since the arrival of the new ministers – access to the highest court and accused that the project, which analyzes article 60 of the CDMX Constitutional Law on Human Rights, opens the door to validating “forced evictions.”
Finally, when approving the minutes of last Thursday’s session, an error was incorporated to clarify that the necessary majority was not reached to endorse the project of Minister Hugo Aguilar Ortiz on the contradiction of criteria 223/2025, which sought to establish jurisprudence to condition the retroactive payment of retirement pensions to workers of the Federal Electricity Commission. After the error of the Secretary of Agreements, who considered it approved, the matter was dismissed and returned to a minister of the majority.
