With the disappearance of chambers, the powers of the Supreme Court of Justice will be defined.

The first task of the full court of the new Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), composed of nine justices and which will take office on September 1, will be to define its powers following the elimination of the First and Second Chambers, reported Loretta Ortiz Ahlf.

In a group interview, the acting minister, who was elected by popular vote on June 1st to continue in office, explained that her proposal is for the full court to assume only the functions of a constitutional court and for all other matters to be resolved by the collegiate courts.

"Obviously, we're going to look for a similar structure to the current Chambers. Well, first we'd have to adjust them. What will the Court's powers be? They could, um, simply limit (those of the full court) to the functions of a Constitutional Court and return the rest to the members."

Agendas

During the first meeting of the nine ministers elected by popular vote, held on June 23rd, including Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, who will preside over the new Court, he commented, it was agreed to create a single agenda with everyone's proposals.

The three acting ministers, who will remain in office after being ratified by the public vote (herself, Lenia Batres, and Yasmín Esquivel), will continue to study the issues assigned to them and still pending resolution by August 31st, and the remaining pending issues will be divided among the other six.

"Important agreements, well, important agreements. We're going to present drafts, each of us, of what will be our work plan to reach a single agreement, a single plan. We're going to continue working with the secretaries of study and account, well, the presentations we're working on with our people, and those who come, at least at the beginning, will continue working on the presentations until they evaluate their situation, the situation of the members, that is, whether they're going to continue with them or not."

"We, the three ministers in office, will continue with the matters we had, and then the others will be distributed among the new ones who arrive."

It has also been agreed, he explained, that there will be three ceremonies for the inauguration of the new Court on September 1.

"There will be three ceremonies: the swearing-in ceremony in the Senate; the one for the Supreme Court; the investiture ceremony in the Supreme Court; the first session; and the final one, which will also be held in Indigenous communities. In other words, there will be a ceremony with Indigenous communities."

Finally, he assured that the new ministers will wear togas.