Iván Evair Saldaña
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, April 17, 2025, p. 7
In its last line of sessions before the transition in the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF), the Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) plans to resolve in the coming months matters of high impact, including national security, reforms to mining laws and national waters, informal preventive detention and the execution of international sentences. In contrast, there is still no date to discuss cases such as the Salinas Group on tax debts for around 35 billion pesos.
As of next week, the Plenary will only have 19 public sessions and on September 1 they will deliver the post to the ministers chosen by popular vote. They have the discussion of 76 issues scheduled.
Among the outstanding issues, the plenary provides to determine at the end of this month the participation that the PJF will have on the judgment of the Inter -American Court of Human Rights in the case of women victims of sexual torture in Atenco, and in May the resolution of the same authority on the file García Rodríguez and another versus Mexico, in which the SCJN will mark a transcendental criterion on the application of informal imprisonment in Mexico.
Also in that May session, the resolution of an unconstitutionality action against the February 2021 decree was scheduled, which amended various laws to expand the catalog of crimes that merit informal preventive detention.
At the end of April, the discussion of two resources in the field of national security promoted by the Federal Executive against resolutions of the National Institute of Transparency, access to information and protection of personal data (INAI) is also planned; One of March 2023, regarding the opening of files on the state of force of state police corporations, and the second, of November 2023, on the delivery of information related to the operational states of the national electrical system.
In May they will discuss the action of unconstitutionality against the reform of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration of May 2023, which ordered the disappearance of the INAI and the Federal Telecommunications Institute, among other changes.
For August, the unconstitutionality action promoted by federal opposition legislators against the decree of reforms to the Mining Law, of the National Water Laws, the General of Ecological Balance and the Protection of the Environment and the General for the Prevention and Integral Management of the waste of May 2023. Senators against the Reform to the Mining Law of April 20, 2022.
