Baude: On its own terms, Justice Barrett’s opinion is excellent. Sophisticated, careful, clear and correct. Giving the lower ...

DAVID RABY reports on the progressive administration in Mexico, which continues to overcome far-left wreckers on the edges of a teaching union, the murderous violence of the cartels, the ploys of the ...

These are not isolated events; they happen because state officials in Mexico protect organized crime—not occasionally but routinely, at various levels of government. Often, officials face a simple ...

The greatest number of votes went to Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, a lawyer close to Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Ms Sheinbaum’s predecessor and the architect of the judicial reform.

Mexicans are preparing to elect the country’s judges by popular vote, in a unique experiment that legal groups warn threatens judicial independence, throws out 30 years of knowledge and opens ...

IDEAS Mexico’s dangerous constitutional ‘reform’ Cartels and other powerful interests will now find it easier to influence judges. By Stephen Kinzer Contributor,Updated May 23, 2025, 3:00 a.m.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who was inaugurated on October 1, has come into office with more political power than any Mexican leader since the country’s transition away from single-party rule ...

The reform, proposed by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, makes it so about half of the judges — including those on the Supreme Court — will be up for election in June 2025, and ...

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo made history earlier this year when in Mexico's largest election to date she became the first woman to be elected president. She's set to make history once more on Tuesday when ...

Nor does it reform the General Prosecutor's Office, whose current head, elected for 10 years and autonomous, is considered to be the most ineffective Mexico has seen in recent decades.