Judicial independence is not a luxury but the bedrock of any functioning democracy. The reform risks turning courts into political battlegrounds by subjecting judicial appointments to popular vote.

Mexico's first round of elections of judges by popular vote, the product of a contentious constitutional overhaul passed in ...

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Mexico's lower house of Congress approved on Wednesday a measure to abolish most of the autonomous bodies that regulate some ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced plans to propose three bills supporting a judicial reform that will transition Mexico to directly elect all judges. This reform, supported by Congress in ...

Terry Thompson had an election to run for voters in Cascade County, Montana. Why then, she thought, was her office in Great ...