Source: Persuasion
by Quico Toro
“Last week, the most successful and popular Mexican president in living memory took a major step towards dismantling Mexico’s democracy. Just three weeks before handing over power to his hand-picked successor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) hectored congress into approving his harebrained scheme to make most Mexican judgeships — including the Supreme Court — subject to election rather than appointment. Judicial election in general is a bad idea for reasons Jesus articulated best in the gospel of Matthew: ‘no man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.’ Elected judges are expected to serve both the law and the electorate. When those two masters are pulling in different directions, judges who follow the law lose the electorate … and with it, their judgeships.” (09/16/24)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-mexican-state-is-being-vandalized