{"id":1441,"date":"2024-06-20T23:10:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/mexican-drive-to-elect-federal-judges-concerns-legal-sector-and-investors\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T23:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:10:57","slug":"mexican-drive-to-elect-federal-judges-concerns-legal-sector-and-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/mexican-drive-to-elect-federal-judges-concerns-legal-sector-and-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Drive to Elect Federal Judges Concerns Legal Sector and Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador is pursuing his plan to replace the country\u2019s federal judiciary with elected judges and magistrates before he steps down on Sept. 1\u2014a move that has the legal sector and investors on edge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The country\u2019s system of appointed judges, while imperfect, has clear steps for professional advancement that lawyers say promote some degree of impartiality.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the president has accused the judiciary of being corrupt and wants to fire more than a thousand judges. Stories abound in Mexico of judges being paid off to rule one way or another.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador is pursuing his plan to replace the country\u2019s federal judiciary with elected judges and magistrates before he steps down on Sept. 1\u2014a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2066,316,2065,554,2068,915,136,1406,2067],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-concerns","tag-drive","tag-elect","tag-federal","tag-investors","tag-judges","tag-legal","tag-mexican","tag-sector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}