Comments on the election of ministers and magistrates by citizen vote in Mexico 2025

Abstract

The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation constantly opposed the laws promoted by the Fourth Transformation, in response to which it promoted reforms to the Judiciary of the Federation, which were approved in the Congress of the Union and published in the Official Journal of the Federation on 15 September 2024. The objective of this essay is to analyse the election of ministers, magistrates and district judges by popular vote of the citizens, using a qualitative methodology, with an approach based on legal hermeneutics. Until 2022, the Judiciary of the Federation was headed by 1,671 elements (11 ministers of the Court; 7 magistrates of the electoral tribunal, 910 collegiate, 6 of the Judiciary Council; 737 district judges). The Court and its followers declared that its jurisdictional resolutions are taken impartially, although they always involved ideological, political and economic issues.