They give 24 hours for judges to withdraw suspensions against judicial reform

Iván Evair Saldaña

La Jornada newspaper
Friday, February 14, 2025, p. 3

The Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) yesterday gave a 24 -hour period to the district judges to revoke the final suspensions against judicial reform that violate the electoral land, although the ruling does not reach the judgments of I protest against the constitutional amendment over alleged human rights violations.

The ruling of the ministers also determined that the resolutions issued by the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF), to allow the judicial election to continue, They are opinions that do not have the ability to invalidate suspension orders in amparo trialswhich can only be confirmed, modified or revoked by the collegiate circuit courts or the Court itself.

The suspensions of the amparo judges were badly designed to deal with electoral matters and should be revoked, but this does not authorize the Superior Chamber (from the TEPJF) to break the challenge of the amparoMinister Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena clarified.

The Court did not define yesterday from when the 24 -hour period will run, but decided that it will be established in the switch of the project, that is, when the complete sentence is published with the elements provided in the debate.

After a four -hour session, the Plenary approved by seven votes against three the project of Minister Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena. In this case, judges and magistrates consulted the high court to determine whether the suspensions can be revoked by the TEPJF or if, on the contrary, said power falls into the circuit courts or in the Court.

In its ruling, the Court also criticized that all the authorities responsible in the amparo trials against the election of judges, magistrates and ministers (including the National Electoral and Senate Institute) took powers, skipping, among other actions, the suspensions of the suspensions of the judges, which defined as An outrage of the rule of law.

In favor of the project were Minister President Norma Piña Hernández and Minister Margarita Ríos Farjat; Also ministers Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, Jorge Mario Pardo Rebolledo, Alberto Pérez Dayán, Javier Laynez Potisek and Juan Luis González Alcántara Carrancá.

Against the ministers Lenia Batres Guadarrama, Yasmín Esquivel Mossa and Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, but separated into the resolutions.

Batres said that the Court has no powers to invalidate TEPJF sentences or urged authorities of the Executive and Legislative powers to obey suspensions issued by the judges, which they considered that they are unconstitutional.

The project can lead to a tyranny of the judges of this country by making them believe that they can issue resolutions for their conviction, for their will, without being registered in the Constitutionhe emphasized.

However, the fourth project resolutive generated controversy, because it issued a I exhort of the Court to all the authorities responsible for the judicial election, to comply with the suspensions issued by the judges. He was rejected by the votes of Lenia Batres, Norma Piña, Juan Luis González and Jorge Pardo.