Bertram, Daniel Author aut Higuera Sánchez, Laura Author aut Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-10-25 eng

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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 Bertram, Daniel Democratic Backsliding judicial independence Mexican Supreme Court 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-mexican-standoff/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/c243517914086e82 231025 10.59704/c243517914086e82 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)