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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

It would be hilarious if America became the corpo plague lands and Mexico became the land of the living and Americans tried to cross into Mexico but the border wall Biden built was too impenetrable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't get the social dynamic that would eventually bring the party to elect only the candidates loyal to the party. For real, here in Italy we've got a great issue of nepotism and this reform would probably bring fresh air to a corrupt and inefficient elite

Almost surely not everyone will be able to candidate themselves, some kind of degree or qualitification must be a minimum requrement

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It is interesting how easily the article passes off 'stacking courts' as more of a danger with elections than appointments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, there's no way you can stack an elected court!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Nearly all media is owned by conservative white men that willingly court fascism if it means lower taxes.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, and look how that turned out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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

WTF

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