Overview

• At an extraordinary meeting, the SCJN dismissed the final four challenges for lack of standing and confirmed INE certifications for Claudia Valle Aguilasocho and Gilberto de Guzmán Bátiz as TEPJF Sala Superior magistrates.
• Chief Justice Norma Piña delivered a farewell address, saying society and history will judge the outgoing court’s work as the current composition concluded its last session.
• President Claudia Sheinbaum hailed the transition as the end of a period marked by nepotism in the judiciary and voiced confidence in the incoming, elected bench.
• Mexico City’s leader Clara Brugada sent a bill to reform the local judiciary’s organic law, proposing an interim TSJ presidency chosen by the full court for Jan 2026–Aug 2027 and, after 2027, a rotating presidency starting with the magistrate with the most votes, alongside new rules for the Tribunal de Disciplina Judicial.
• CDMX lawmakers plan an extraordinary period to process the initiative, as locally elected judges and magistrates prepare to be sworn in on September 1 under the new system.