Iván Evair Saldaña, Néstor Jiménez, Georgina Saldierna and Enrique Méndez
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, December 16, 2024, p. 4
Among the aspiring ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) who yesterday went to the second stage of candidate selection, there were dozens who registered in two or three evaluation committees to go to the safe
.
In the federal Executive, 228 who aspire to be one of the nine members of the plenary session of the highest constitutional court in the country passed the first filter, for the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF) 25 and that of the Legislative Branch 263.
Of the 25 eligible candidates selected by the PJF committee alone, 22 of them were also registered in the other two bodies of the Powers of the Union.
For example: Marisela Morales Ibáñez, former head of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón; Judge Paula María Garza Villegas Sánchez Cordero, daughter of former Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero; Judge Magda Zulema Mosri Gutiérrez, wife of General Rafael Macedo de la Concha, and Édgar Corzo Sosa, former advisor to retired minister Genaro Góngora Pimentel.
Also Sergio Javier Molina Martínez, current member of the Federal Judiciary Council (CJF), who was accused by judges and magistrates of traitor
for giving rise to the continuation of the implementation of the judicial reform, since on October 10 he voted in favor of the PJF delivering to the Senate the lists of heads of courts and tribunals to continue with the judicial elections of 2025 and 2027.
Others chose to register only in the Legislative and the Executive, such as María Estela Ríos González, former head of the Legal Department of the Executive with Andrés Manuel López Obrador and nominated twice by the same president for the position of Minister of the Court.
In addition, Jaime Cárdenas Gracia, UNAM jurist and former head of the Institute to Return What was Stolen to the People, and former PAN member Roberto Gil Zuarth.
Other candidates registered only in one committee, among them Bernardo Bátiz Vázquez, current advisor to the Federal Judiciary.
The ministers Lenia Batres Guadarrama, Loretta Ortiz Ahlf and Yasmín Esquivel Mossa, who will seek to repeat their position, do not appear on the committee lists because in accordance with the judicial reform, the incumbents who did not express their resignation before last November will be automatically on the ballot on June 1, 2025.
