Absolved in five federal cases and freed by a 2022 “judicial Saturday” ruling, R1 had been exposed in AMLO’s press conference as the emblem of impunity used to justify reforming the Judiciary.
“[Justice] must get closer to reality, and to get closer to reality we need method, we need knowledge, we need systematization, we need the people who demand justice, who cry out for justice, who mobilize out there.”
It is crucial to move from rhetoric to action and initiate a genuine transformative process that begins at the federal level and extends across the board to state and local governments, which are directly responsible for ensuring compliance.
Mexico’s Chief Justice of the Supreme Court indicated that the people of Mexico are unlikely to want to return to a “justice system behind closed doors.”
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.