▲ Yesterday, Supreme Court workers decided to join the work stoppage against the reform of the Judicial Branch, following a consultation in which less than a third of those summoned participated.Photo taken from social networks
Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, September 3, 2024, p. 6
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador condemned the attempt frankly arbitrary and factional
of two judges who, by granting two injunctions, seek to stop the discussion of judicial reform in Congress. Likewise, he accused the parliamentary faction of the PRI of abandoning the plenary hall to validate this illegal resolution.
During his lecture, he spoke at length about the debate and the need to undertake reform. Because we consider that the Judiciary is in bad shape, there is a lot of influence peddling, nepotism. A renewal, a change, a cleansing, a purification of the Judiciary is essential.
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He was especially critical of the interference of judges in the legislative process, highlighting that the powers of Congress are established by the Constitution. He stressed that Article 61 of the Amparo Law provides that The amparo trial is inadmissible against additions or reforms to the Political Constitution against acts of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
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The President said that the restriction is very clear, so the promotion of amparos does not work in this case. He also stressed that these issues have already been dealt with in the Supreme Court at some time, so there are already two jurisprudences.
In order to reach jurisprudence, the so-called theses must first be discussed, and when a certain number of theses are approved in a certain direction, they become jurisprudence. It is a process. And if it is already clearly resolved, there is no need for any interpretation in the Constitution, in the Amparo Law and in the jurisprudence of the Judicial Branch. How is it possible that they want to stop the legislative process! It is a frank, arbitrary invasion.
Although there is clarity regarding the legality of the discussion on judicial reform, the constitutionalists in the conservative sector have not spoken out against the illegal decision of two judges in Chiapas and Morelos, he said.
He insisted on the relevance of electing judges, magistrates and ministers to eradicate the corruption and nepotism that characterize the Judiciary. It is proven that it is full of relatives, it is the power with the most nepotism of the three. Wives, brothers, children, nephews, fathers, mothers work there. It seems like the DIF. It is the power of the family.
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He dismissed the arguments of those who oppose the reform, citing the complexity of the tasks of judges, magistrates and ministers, asking whether it is more complex than that of the President: And why is the President elected as either the governor of a state or the mayor? What, is it more complicated to be a judge than to be the mayor, than to be the governor, than to be the President of the Republic?
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It is enough to meet the requirements for their eligibility: to be qualified lawyers. When the endorsement for this position is achieved at the polls, the judges will take into account that they owe the position to the people.
