Breathe
By Ivabelle Arroyo
One thing is judicial reform, which profoundly alters the composition of the Mexican political system by altering the axes of independence of the Judiciary, and another is to modify the Constitution so that no one can oppose a constitutional reform.
I spelled it right: no one.
We are told that it is so that judges do not oppose the will of the People, but it is so that political parties, state governments and actors such as prosecutors, local legislators, ombudsmen and citizens do not oppose what Morena puts in the Constitution.
Morena, with its legislators, is bypassing all these actors by denying them the possibility of requesting protection against legislative abuses.
Did you think it was the judges who were demanding? No. Judges have never had the possibility to oppose a constitutional reform. Those who oppose are citizens who seek protection against abuses, prosecutors and governments who see their competences invaded, political parties who shout that they were not allowed to read the initiative... Before whom do they complain, with appeals, controversies or actions of unconstitutionality? Not before the President, but before a judge. Or a minister. Or a judge or minister.
The Judicial Branch decides whether these complainants are right or wrong, and it does so in a way that there are no outrages: if a judge goes too far, the complainant can appeal (not to the same judge, but to another one) and there are collegiate courts where decisions are made by a majority and not by a single judge, the same as the Plenary of the Court, where there may be ministers with different views to protect a citizen who first complained about a rule and then about a judge and then about a collegiate court.
Morena deceives by reforming the Constitution and saying that it shields it against corrupt and mafia judges. In reality it shields it against all others: those who could knock on a judge's door.
The opinions expressed are the responsibility of the authors and are absolutely independent of the position and editorial line of the company. Opinion 51.
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