Even though Mexico and the U.S. have tried to manage their differences in a diplomatic manner, it is clear that the ...

Judicial elections, as they are conceived, are a half-hearted democracy: unknown candidates, empty campaigns and a disoriented citizenry. For voting to be meaningful – and not just a political ...

Mexico’s shift away from an appointment-based system to the election of judges has, at least for now, amounted to a crucial step in Morena’s consolidation of power.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Tuesday that she will pursue electoral reform included in her administration's ...

Ordinary citizens often face a justice system that feels distant or rigged against them. But instead of addressing these systemic flaws through meaningful structural improvements based on transparency ...

A lawyer who once represented drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has won a judgeship in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua in Mexico’s historic judicial elections this month.

Mexico is about to become “the first country in the world where every judge on every court is chosen by popular vote”, says The Economist. Judicial elections this month attracted little ...

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asked Jordan Pratt, one of President ...

Judicial elections, as they are conceived, are a half-hearted democracy: unknown candidates, empty campaigns and a disoriented citizenry.