Joy & Democracy
Democracy is government by the people, but increasingly by a joyful people, who, without diminishing their responsibilities, celebrate, as happened at the large gathering in the Zócalo convened by Dr. Sheinbaum
Democracy is government by the people, but increasingly by a joyful people, who, without diminishing their responsibilities, celebrate, as happened at the large gathering in the Zócalo convened by Dr. Sheinbaum
“It would be very unfair if workers who are captive taxpayers because they deduct taxes from their paychecks are paying, while large individuals or large companies don’t.”
“We promised many things during the campaign, and we’re going to keep them,” said Minister Loretta Ortiz, a Justice on Mexico’s recently elected Supreme Court.
This week the Supreme Court ministers reduced their own salaries so as to meet the Constitutional requirement that no public salary can exceed that of the President’s.
Mexico’s historic September 1st: Sheinbaum’s First State of the Union, and Mexico’s First Elected Supreme Court.
Appeals to international courts remain pending, but they cannot overturn Mexico’s judicial reform and will have no more value than a declaration; they cannot oppose the sovereign decision to elect the judiciary.
The final session of the neoliberal court. Mexico’s elected Supreme Court justices take to the bench in September.
For three decades, Mexico’s Supreme Court and the entire federal judiciary acted in favor of political, economic, media, and intellectual elites with decisions that led to its discredit as an insensitive and corrupt institution.
The extraordinary meeting has raised concerns exiting Justices will use it to cover their tracks or engage in some last minute politicking. The new elected judiciary takes office on September 1st.
Mexico’s incoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Hugo Aguilar Ortiz says power groups persist within the judiciary, and that monitoring and sanctions are urgently needed, otherwise, within five years, vices will be widespread.