The Fading Effort to Stop AMLO’s Judicial Reform
Norma Piña, head of Mexico’s highest court, is leading the charge to resist major changes to the judiciary. Is it too late?
It’s a watershed moment for Mexico’s judicial system: A reform pushed by outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador would replace the entire Supreme Court and pick a new set of justices—as well as some 1,600 federal judges and magistrates—through a series of popular votes. The most prominent opponent is Norma Piña, 64, the first woman ever appointed to head Mexico’s Supreme Court. She’s fighting not just for her own job but, she says, for the credibility and independence of the judiciary itself. “We need an independent judiciary, staffed by people with solid...
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