Overview

• The Legal Counsel of the Presidency, led by Raúl Armando Jiménez Vázquez, formally asked the court to remove Minister Jorge Mario Pardo Rebolledo’s project on automatic preventive detention from its current docket.
• Supreme Court President Norma Piña Hernández sent the executive’s request to Minister Pardo Rebolledo for determination of the next steps.
• The letter argues that postponing the debate will ensure compliance with the IACHR’s January 2023 García Rodríguez ruling within Mexico’s constitutional framework.
• The preventive detention issue holds the 18th spot on the court’s plenary list and is unlikely to be addressed in the sessions scheduled for July 15, August 5 or August 12.
• Separate ministerial proposals by Margarita Ríos Farjat and Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena that also seek to invalidate automatic detention remain pending before the court.