After the Court granted the appeals, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the action was sufficient to seek impeachment against Minister President Norma Piña, however, he later ruled out that he would try to do so.
“The president of the Supreme Court has just allowed access to two files that she should have, in strictly legal terms, rejected; two files that involve the payment of taxes by a company for 30, 35 billion,” said the president.
The Court responded that constitutional norms were applied in the case.
“I inform you that in both direct amparos under review, the Presidency (of the Court) issued the respective procedural agreement in accordance with the applicable constitutional and legal norms, within the time provided for such purpose, considering the turn that corresponds to them by virtue of their filing date and the workloads of this Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation,” he said a few days later.
The AMLO government pointed out that the presidency of the Court that the dilatory conduct in which it has incurred in resolving a tax evasion case for 35 billion pesos “constitutes a legal action of protection against the tax fraud behaviors of those who have repeatedly and stubbornly failed to meet their tax obligations for decades.”
This type of omission is supported by “the intricate structure and actions of the Judiciary and violates Article 17 of the Constitution,” he explained.
In the midst of the dispute over Judicial Reform, the federal government urged the Court to resolve the case.
The case “was already handled by a minister of this Court, who took more than eight months to present his project, matters on which it was finally decided that they did not meet the requirements to be resolved by the SCJN and so were referred to the collegiate court of origin,” the Government indicated.
The appeals are against omissions in contributions for the fiscal years 2006 and 2013, over which more than 16 and 11 years have elapsed in litigation, respectively.
The dispute over the Salinas Pliego case occurs while tensions between the executive and legislative branches are increasing over judicial reform.
