They are going for impeachment against the judge who ordered the reform to be eliminated from the DOF

Andrea Becerril

La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, October 20, 2024, p. 4

Morena senators will promote impeachment against the judge who ordered President Claudia Sheinbaum to step down from office Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) the publication of the judicial reform, as well as the other judges who have filed protections to stop this constitutional modification aimed at electing the heads of the Court, as well as courts and tribunals, by popular vote.

The president of the Constitutional Points Commission, Óscar Cantón Zetina, and his colleagues Luis Fernando Salazar and Saúl Monreal warned that this attitude of the judges, which violates the division of powers and the Magna Carta itself, can no longer be tolerated, as long as stop this amendment aimed at eliminating corruption, nepotism and waste in the Judiciary.

Those who seek to ignore and invalidate a constitutional reform that was approved by both chambers of the Congress of the Union and the vast majority of local legislatures, which go beyond what is established in constitutional article 39, which establishes the right of the Legislative Branch to reform the Magna Carta, they incur responsibility and must be sanctionedSalazar warned.

However, he added that the option is not to go to the Federal Judiciary Council, which in 24 years has only sanctioned nine judges. It has covered up shameful behavior in recent years, and therefore, in the reform this body disappears and in its place the Judicial Disciplinary Court will act..

In this regard, Saúl Monreal, president of the Jurisdictional Commission, which is the body in the Senate to resolve the proceedings of provenance, once the matter has concluded in the Chamber of Deputies, announced that he will ask the co-legislator to is the instructor, start the procedure.

More than a thousand requests

Faced with various judicial resolutions with which Morena has been dissatisfied, legislators from that party have threatened with political trials against the judges involved, but in many of these cases the complaint procedures have not been carried out, with which, in addition, the president Claudia Sheinbaum has expressed her disagreement, considering that it would be fall into provocation.

One of the most recent cases occurred when the Court announced, in an unprecedented manner, that it would review the validity of the reform to the PJF, and could even declare it unconstitutional.

At the beginning of October, a group of cherry senators, including Saúl Monreal and Cantón Zetina, and the PT Gonzalo Yáñez, considered that it would be valid to start a political trial against the president of the Court, Norma Piña, and the other seven ministers who endorsed the aforementioned position.

A few months earlier, in April, the then national president of Morena, Mario Delgado – today head of the SEP – and retired minister Arturo Zaldívar announced that they would file an impeachment lawsuit against Piña for allegedly admitting and leaking an anonymous complaint against Zaldívar himself, but he never ratified the complaint.

However, according to unofficial data, in the Subcommittee for Prior Examination of the Chamber of Deputies – the body that processes impeachment requests – there are more than a thousand petitions accumulated over several legislatures, which must be addressed starting with the oldest. .