Overview

• On August 5, the nine ministers-elect held a second transition meeting to begin institutional redesign aimed at clearing the backlog of cases they will inherit on September 1.
• Minister-president-elect Hugo Aguilar Ortiz pledged that the new court will operate without gaps and take immediate decisions to guarantee legal certainty, impartiality and independence.
• The incoming justices agreed to launch their tenure with three ceremonies: a Senate oath, a solemn installation session and an indigenous and Afro-Mexican Bastón de Mando and service ritual.
• Formal invitations have been extended to President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and the leaders of both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies to attend the solemn installation.
• Last June’s popular election stemmed from a constitutional reform that reduced the SCJN from eleven to nine ministers and created a nationwide Judicial Discipline Tribunal to oversee judges.