Whispers of Change (Vol. II) - Mexico’s Ongoing Debate on the Unconstitutionality of Constitutional Amendments Intensifies

Whispers of Change (Vol. II) - Mexico’s Ongoing Debate on the Unconstitutionality of Constitutional Amendments Intensifies Olaiz-Gonzalez, Jaime Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-5723-8947 Torres-Checa, Daniel Author aut Incháustegui, Sebastián Author aut Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-04-18 eng Mexico’s prolonged refusal to eliminate mandatory preventive detention from its legal system has slowly but steadily contributed to the rising tension between the Mexican Supreme Court, the Mexican State, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Following both Courts’ recent decisions on the case of García Rodríguez y Alpízar Ortíz v. México (both have recently decided cases concerning virtually the same set of facts with notoriously varying outcomes), the discussion heats as it now relates to one of the most relevant inquiries of modern constitutional study: judicial review of constitutional provisions and amendments. CC BY-SA 4.0 Olaiz-Gonzalez, Jaime Constitutional Change Inter-American Court of Human Rights Inter-American Human Rights System Judicial Review Mexican Supreme Court Preventive Detention 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/whispers-of-change-vol-ii/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20230418-204502-0 230418 10.17176/20230418-204502-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)