nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/c243517914086e82 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 231025s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/c243517914086e82 doi eng 342 23 Bertram, Daniel Author aut The Mexican Standoff - AMLO vs. the Judiciary Bertram, Daniel Verfassungsblog 2023-10-25 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In a historical march, tens of thousands of judicial staff, lawyers, and judges – including at least one justice of the Supreme Court – took to the streets of Mexico City on 22 October 2023. Chanting slogans such as ‘¡El Poder Judicial de la Federación no se toca!’ and ‘¡Somos los garantes de la Constitución!’ protesters rallied against the Mexican government’s plans to slash the federal judiciary’s (Poder Judicial de la Federación, PJF) funding. In this contribution, we analyse what this dispute is all about and explain why the government’s plans jeopardise the independence of the Mexican judiciary. In particular, we argue that the recent, seemingly innocent financial measures come at the cusp of an alarming authoritarian turn. Finally, we offer some tentative thoughts on what the endgame in this quickly escalating dispute might look like. CC BY-SA 4.0 Democratic Backsliding judicial independence Mexican Supreme Court Higuera Sánchez, Laura Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-mexican-standoff/ raw object