Overview

• The SCJN convened a three-day hearing from October 20 to 22 to receive input on action of unconstitutionality 182/2024 before issuing a ruling.
• Minister Lenia Batres’s draft would end the Court’s decade-long practice of automatically striking down laws lacking prior consultation unless a direct impact is shown or consultation is expressly requested.
• Batres has said the right to consultation remains intact and that her proposal targets the remedy of automatic invalidation rather than the duty to consult.
• Activists warn the change could weaken autonomy, revive paternalism, and restrict human-rights commissions’ ability to file challenges under Article 105 without a direct petition.
• Registrants criticized short deadlines and inaccessible formats, as the Court accepted 102 of 306 requests to speak, with participants including national groups and Human Rights Watch.