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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Mexico will amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be elected

MEXICO CITY — Mexico is poised to amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be elected as part of a judicial overhaul championed by the outgoing president but slammed by critics as a blow to the country’s rule of law. Mexico City legislators demonstrate against judicial reform, with signs that read in Spanish “No justice” at the …

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4 months ago

Protesters storm Mexico’s Senate after ruling party wins votes for court overhaul

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of protesters broke into Mexico’s Senate on Tuesday as lawmakers weighed a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary, forcing the body to take a temporary recess for the safety of the senators. Protesters stand alongside opposition Senators after interrupting a debate over the government’s proposed judicial reform, which would make judges stand for election, in …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Mexico freezes ties with US, Canadian embassies over judicial reforms

Op India

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico has severed diplomatic ties with the United States and Canada because of their criticism of his proposal to have judges elected by popular ballot. Last week, US Ambassador Ken Salazar called the reform a “major risk to the functioning of Mexico’s democracy” and issued a warning about possible consequences for commercial relations between …

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7 months ago

Mexico’s president-elect Sheinbaum pushes judicial reform amid market fears

Al Jazeera

The president-elect has promised wide consultations with stakeholders in the judiciary ahead of the reforms. Claudia Sheinbaum, the country’s first female president, promised wide consultations on the reforms, signalling her determination to proceed despite concerns that have produced market volatility and hit the peso hard. In her first news conference since being elected on June 2, Sheinbaum left a meeting …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Israelis protest against judicial reforms before new parliament

Al Jazeera

Parliament to hold an opening session on Monday after recess as backers and detractors of the reform seek to keep up the pressure. Thousands of Israelis have gathered in central Tel Aviv for the latest weekly protest against the government’s judicial reform plans just days before legislators return for a new parliament session. Opponents of the judicial reform bill have …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Planes Grounded, Def Min Sacked As President Urges To Halt Judicial Reform — Here’s Why Israel Is Burning

ABP News

Israel Protests: Protests have been intensifying in Israel over the proposed judicial reform that has caused widespread controversy in the country. According to the agency, chairman Arnon Bar-David said: “I am calling a general strike.from the moment this press conference ends, the State of Israel stops.” President Urged To Halt Judicial Reform Bill Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday urged …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Israel president urges Netanyahu to rework judicial reforms, says it has put country's unity at risk

Firstpost

Opponents claim that the ongoing judicial reform will consolidate power in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and weaken the democratic system. Netanyahu however believes it will more effectively rein in an unduly powerful Supreme Court Tel Aviv: After a contentious judicial overhaul that was advanced in a tumultuous parliamentary session overnight, Israel’s president on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Collegium chaos: How Israel’s judicial reforms find a parallel in what India needs

Firstpost

The Collegium should be abolished forthwith, the NJAC created, and the primacy of the elected Parliament over an unelected judiciary should be asserted, and that too, unambiguously Israel’s brand new government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has embarked on a series of judicial reforms. So far as I can tell from reading several news reports, and listening to an Economist podcast …

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5 years ago

As rapper Meek Mill fights for judicial reform, something unexpected happened: a Grammy nomination

LA Times

In late November of 2018, the Philadelphia-born rapper Meek Mill had a Billboard 200-topping album “Championships,” acclaim from mentors like Jay-Z and new acolytes like YBN Cordae and a young son he adored. “The younger generation looks up to Meek because he stood tall through all the obstacles,” said Dallas Martin, senior vice president of A&R at Mill’s label Atlantic …

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5 years, 2 months ago

'We Have To Guard Ourselves Against Gradual Erosion Of Democratic Space' : Justice Chandrachud In Discussion With Sr Adv Datar & Prof Ginsburg

Live Law

The event of the book launch of "How to Save a Constitutional Democracy" by Professor Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, and Professor Aziz Z. Huq, was held by the University of Chicago Center in New Delhi on September 24. JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY On political attacks on the independence of the …

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