According to article 98 of the Constitution, only the Senate can endorse the removal of ministers, magistrates or judges from office, but they are only appropriate “for serious reasons,” in which case it must be authorized by the majority of the present members of the Senate of the Republic.
Judge Adrián Guadalupe Aguirre Hernández was assigned in mid-September to the Federal Criminal Justice Center in Jalisco, with residence in Puente Grande.
He was barely elected at the polls in the judicial election last June, in which he obtained 3.59% of the votes received, some 36,084 votes.
Aguirre became the first federal judge to seek to permanently separate from his position after being elected.
In his campaign, the judge offered “open doors for the people” to listen to “concerns, doubts and concerns, so that there is no uncertainty regarding their affairs.”
Aguirre Hernández is a lawyer graduated from the Monterrey University Center, whose studies have recognition of official validity of studies by the University of Guadalajara (UDG).
He has a master’s degree in Accusatory and Adversarial Law from the Judicial School of the Supreme Court of the State of Jalisco (2024-2025) and, according to his resume, he was an intern at the Judicial School of the Judiciary Council, where he carried out activities as Assistant to the Legal Analyst.
There he carried out tasks of verifying the correct integration of the files, classification and organization of procedural documents and “supported the digitization of files.”
Yesterday in the Senate, when the case was heard, Senator Claudia Anaya, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), mentioned: “For those who think that the judicial reform is going well, two months after the swearing-in of ‘the elected’, a request for a license has arrived in the Senate (the same one that was rejected) and today the first resignation arrived.”
(Photo: Screenshot of official letter sent by the Judicial Administration Body to the Senate)
Before him, the first judge to ask for permission to be absent was Judge Ireland Gabriela Pacheco Torres, who last month asked the Senate to separate from the Court to which she was assigned, although for six months.
Pacheco asked to leave for half a year to finish her assignment as general director of the Evaluation of the National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM). His request was rejected by the Senate.
A third case related to the performance of judges is that of Judge Alberto Sigales Obrador Garrido, assigned to the Federal Criminal Justice Center in Colima and who is suspended to be investigated due to possible anomalies in the issuance of rulings that reduced sentences of those convicted in drug trafficking cases.
