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
    0•5 days ago

    It seems to me like all it’s accomplishing is another layer of abstraction rather than a real mechanistic distinction, but I’ve seen what “bipartisan” action looks like in the US, and the billions in arms given to Israel are a decent start. Republicans and Democrats absolutely have the capacity to collaborate and, when they do, it’s monstrous.

    Voting at least gives the people a chance to resist the machinations of the bipartisan consensus and get progressives installed.

    • @slickgoatEnglish
      2•5 days ago

      Voting also brings people like Trump into play. How do you think that will play out with Palestine should he get in again?

      Look, it does actually work in Western Europe, the UK, Australia and NZ. All this talk that it can’t work is plainly wrong.

      What is impossible to get around is American exceptionalism. People just can’t conceive that other systems might be better. Fine. I apologise for suggesting otherwise. Enjoy.

      • @[email protected]English
        0•5 days ago

        How do you think that will play out with Palestine should he get in again?

        Liberals keeps saying that Trump will do genocide x 2, but they have no evidence, nor any indication of how.

        Look, it does actually work in Western Europe, the UK, Australia and NZ. All this talk that it can’t work is plainly wrong.

        Your courts are mostly more professional than America’s but I don’t find that to be a compelling argument when every country you listed is a reactionary shithole, Australia especially. NZ is the only one that I’d give kind of a pass to there.

        • @slickgoatEnglish
          2•5 days ago

          You must have missed the bit where Trump constantly says that he’s the best friend Israel ever had. I mean constantly.

          I’m sure that won’t translate to arms supply. Possibly fruit baskets?

          • @[email protected]English
            0•5 days ago

            Biden is already supplying arms and Harris has vowed to do the same and gone on endlessly about Israel’s “right to defend itself” and how anti-genocide protesters are pro terrorism and so on. I’m not saying Trump won’t fully support Israel, I’m saying there is no light between that and the Biden-Harris position.

            • @slickgoatEnglish
              2•5 days ago

              You are free to vote for Trump then. I’m told many are.

                • @slickgoatEnglish
                  2•5 days ago

                  Well, I think those is your options? Or not vote at all.

                  • @[email protected]English
                    0•5 days ago

                    Vote third party, put actual pressure on the Dems to make concessions. If they have your vote no matter what, they have no reason to listen to you.