The Court must resolve the controversy by means of a “consultation”: Norma Piña

Gustavo Castillo Garcia

The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, September 19, 2024, p. 6

Following the instructions of Minister Norma Lucía Piña Hernández, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) must resolve, as a consultationif applicable the controversy provided for in article 11, section XXII, of the Organic Law of the Judicial Branch of the Federation to challenge reforms to the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, both in relation to compliance with the formalities of the respective legislative procedure, as well as its material content.

The case was presented by magistrates and judges of the Federal Judicial Branch (PJF) on September 13 and yesterday the presidency of the Supreme Court published the acceptance agreement to process the consultation, and the file with the number 4/2024 was transferred to the minister Juan Luis González Alcántara for his study.

The agreement states: The full court is consulted on this matter considering the urgency of its processing, ordering its electronic and printed formation..

The list of agreements indicates: This matter is referred to Minister Juan Luis González Alcántara Carrancá, in accordance with the order that is being handled by the General Secretariat of Agreements of this High Court..

They refuse to attract resources

Meanwhile, by unanimous decision and proposed by Minister Yasmín Esquivel Mossa, the second chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation rejected exercising the power of attraction in a complaint filed by federal judges assigned to Chiapas, with which they sought that the highest court of the country revived an issue that by its nature has already been overcome, and that concerns the approval of judicial reform.

The project was analyzed during the public session held yesterday. The ministers who also make up the second chamber: Alberto Pérez Dayán, Lenia Batres Guadarrama, Javier Laynez Potisek and Luis María Aguilar Morales, voted in favor of not taking up the case, considering that it lacks legal exceptionality.

The appeal filed by judges assigned to Chiapas sought to have the Court consider the refusal to grant a provisional suspension against the ruling on the initiative for judicial reform.