Determinants of the Appointments to Mexico’ Supreme Court of Justice, 1995-2021

The 1994 judicial reform consolidated Mexico’s Supreme Court as a body essentially devoted to constitutional justice. From its enactment and up to 2021, the 27 vacancies opened in the Court have been filled through a procedure the combines presidential nominations with senatorial confirmations. What...

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Autores: Díaz Domínguez, Alejandro, Saavedra Herrera, Camilo
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2023
País:México
Recursos:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositório:Cuestiones Constitucionales. Revista Mexicana de Derecho Constitucional
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/18039
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/cuestiones-constitucionales/article/view/18039
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Supreme Court
judicial appointments
Mexico
constitutional justice
Judiciary
Suprema Corte
designaciones
México
justicia constitucional
Poder Judicial
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Resumo:The 1994 judicial reform consolidated Mexico’s Supreme Court as a body essentially devoted to constitutional justice. From its enactment and up to 2021, the 27 vacancies opened in the Court have been filled through a procedure the combines presidential nominations with senatorial confirmations. What factors have influenced the outcomes of these appointment processes? This article addresses this question through the analysis of an original dataset of all the appointments made to the Mexican Supreme Court in the period 1995-2021. In line with comparative literature on judicial appointments, the article claims that the outcomes have been mostly determined by both contextual factors and the nominees’ personal attributes.