Overview
- In a unanimous core holding, the SCJN ruled that final judgments issued by the Pleno and the now-extinct Salas are inatacables, so a recurso de revisión cannot be used to challenge them.
- The decision stems from the FGR’s bid to review the Primera Sala’s June 11, 2025 ruling that ordered the release of Juana Hilda González Lomelí, which led President Hugo Aguilar Ortiz to put the question to the Pleno in October 2025.
- A dispute over paragraph 52 of Minister Lenia Batres’ opinion produced a confused record, as seven ministers opposed the paragraph and six voted to delete it, and it will be published with an engrose noting the dissent.
- The separate doctrine of “cosa juzgada fraudulenta” remains pending under Minister Loretta Ortiz as a distinct action to address alleged grave procedural fraud.
- In a parallel development, anti-gentrification groups blocked SCJN entrances to oppose a project on CDMX evictions, after which Minister María Estela Ríos withdrew the item and the Court suspended its discussion indefinitely.