Overview

• The SCJN admitted two appeals against the election of Gilberto de Guzmán Bátiz García and Claudia Valle Aguilasocho as Sala Superior magistrates.
• President Norma Lucía Piña Hernández routed the later appeal to Minister Alberto Pérez Dayán and the earlier one to Minister Jorge Mario Pardo Rebolledo.
• Both appeals were brought by non-candidates—civil society representative Gabriela Lorena Sterling Ávalos and ex-aspirant Iván Bravo Olivas—despite the LGSMIE limiting challenges to unsuccessful nominees.
• Complainants argue the INE violated constitutional and LGSMIME provisions by forwarding the impugnations to the TEPJF instead of directly to the Supreme Court.
• Draft resolutions are in preparation and must be finalized before the court’s summer recess to meet the August 31 deadline ahead of the new magistrates’ September 1 Senate oath.