“The new Court must earn legitimacy through actions,” says Justice Ortiz
This article by Ivan Evair Saldaña originally appeared in the September 4, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
Mexico City. “We promised many things during the campaign, and we’re going to keep them: proximity, we’re going to tour the country; we’re going to deliver justice expeditiously, because justice delayed is not justice,” said Supreme Court Minister Loretta Ortiz Ahlf this Thursday.
Four days after the new Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) is installed, Ortiz emphasized in a statement that the legitimacy of the highest court “is not automatic” and will be built “on each resolution and each vote” cast by the Justices.
She called on citizens to evaluate them based on their performance and not on “trivialities.”
“The future of justice in our country is unwritten,” she warned, arguing that the present demands “a Court that is more open to dialogue, more accessible in its language, capable of explaining its decisions clearly, and more sensitive.”
The Minister emphasized that constitutional justice will only make sense when “so many promises become reality” and social rights become tangible in people’s lives. “It’s important that people pay attention to our work and evaluate us based on that,” she added.
For the first time in the country’s recent history, the new justices of the Supreme Court were elected by popular vote on June 1 and assumed office on September 1.
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