Iván Evair Saldaña
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, January 16, 2025, p. 6
Minister Loretta Ortiz Ahlf debuted as the last president who will have the first chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), which will disappear along with the second on August 31, by mandate of the judicial reform enacted on last September 15.
I assume this role conscious of the responsibility it represents, especially considering that as a result of the judicial reform, the disappearance of the functioning of the chambers of this high court is expected, which consecrates me as its last president.
he said in his speech at the opening of the session yesterday.
He thanked trust
of her roommates, Jorge Mario Pardo Rebolledo, Juan Luis González Alcántara Carrancá, Margarita Ríos Farjat and Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, for unanimously choosing her last December to head the first room, even if only for her last eight months, no the two years that his predecessors served.
I am sure that my team and I will make every effort to reciprocate that trust and bring all the functions of this room to fruition. I would like to especially recognize and thank the long work of Minister Pardo Rebolledo in his work as president and dean of this first room
he expressed.
Ortiz Ahlf, who supports judicial reform unlike most of his colleagues, admitted that “the importance of the first room has been historical.
Its integration of ministers widely committed to justice in Mexico is reflected in the recognized prestige of its criteria and emblematic decisions issued in favor of the most vulnerable.
said.