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Mexico is poised to amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be elected as part of a judicial overhaul championed by the outgoing president but slammed by critics as a blow to the country’s rule of law.

The amendment passed Mexico’s Congress on Wednesday, and by Thursday it already had been ratified by the required majority of the country’s 32 state legislatures. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would sign and publish the constitutional change on Sunday.

Legal experts and international observers have said the move could endanger Mexico’s democracy by stacking courts with judges loyal to the ruling Morena party, which has a strong grip on both Congress and the presidency after big electoral wins in June.

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[-] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

Is it worse than having judges appointed for life?

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

No system is 100% resistant to shitters.

Life appointment was supposed to get judges to focus on issues and not make decisions with re-election in mind. Supreme court in the U.S. has shown us how that is going.

[-] Womble@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Thats a problem with political appointments by the president not life terms.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Federal appointments still have to be approved, and even with SCOTUS they can still get rejected, e.g. Bork

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork_Supreme_Court_nomination

Thomas was close to rejection too owing to Anita Hill's testimony

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas_Supreme_Court_nomination

[-] Womble@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

But the vast majority of the time they are approved, and the nomination begins with politicians. Contrast this to the way the UK does it where the appointments come from the senior judges with politicians then approving or rejecting the proposed new member.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago
[-] moody 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

My condolences to him

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Bork was nothing compared to Harriet Miers. Probably the least qualified person ever nominated to SCOUTS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Miers_Supreme_Court_nomination

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

And yet very possibly not the worst person nominated for that specific vacancy.

Samuel Alito, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was nominated four days after her withdrawal and subsequently confirmed.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Oh nowhere near the worst. Just the least qualified.

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