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.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    20•2 months ago

    I feel like there should be a first line of defense, so you don’t get charismatic idiots. Like some hard test and only the top 20 % scorers can campaign.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 months ago

      Why? We don’t really have that for Presidents, which are just as, if not more, dangerous.

      • qazEnglish
        18•2 months ago

        Yeah, and look how that turned out

    • @NotMyOldRedditNameEnglish
      3•2 months ago

      Like how many of your rulings in the past 10 years have been overturned

      • @aodhsishajEnglish
        4•2 months ago

        Or have you passed the law entrance exam. Judges in Texas are elected and they don’t even need to have passed the state bar in some counties

        • @NotMyOldRedditNameEnglish
          1•2 months ago

          they don’t even need to have passed the state bar in some counties

          WTF