http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220922-230613-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/whispers-of-change/ Whispers of Change - On Mexico’s Supreme Court Ongoing Debate on the Unconstitutionality of Constitutional Amendments Olaiz-Gonzalez, Jaime Torres-Checa, Daniel Incháustegui, Sebastián eng 2022-09-22 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional Change Constitutional Review Mexican Supreme Court Pretrial Detention Procedural Justice Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Until recently, a debate on Mexico’s Supreme Court's power to scrutinize the constitutionality of constitutional provisions seemed largely distant. But for the first time in its history, the Supreme Court discussed a draft opinion of one of its members calling for the inapplicability of Article 19 of the Mexican Constitution, which provides the so-called mandatory preventive imprisonment as an automatic measure when investigating specific felonies. With the future of Mexican constitutionalism pending from this decision, the stakes are as high as they have ever been.