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Three cases will reveal what’s next for the nation’s justice system as new judges assume office.
If the U.S. democracy were to ever collapse, AI ranked the top 10 influential figures who would be responsible. And the list ...
Mexico's COVID-19 “fiasco was avoidable”, writes Thomas Legler in The politics of COVID-19 in Mexico: governance meets government. Ranked fifth in the world for the number of deaths, Mexico's COVID-19 ...
On Monday, the DEA released a statement announcing "a major new initiative to strengthen collaboration between the United ...
All of the nine people, who were indicted in late June, have been charged with what is known in Texas as vote harvesting, a felony that often involves payment for collecting and dropping off other ...
There are better ways to reform the judiciary. Mexico needs transparency through independent oversight mechanisms, stronger ethics enforcement, protections for judicial independence and tools to ...
Silvia Delgado, a former lawyer for drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has won a criminal judge position in Mexico's controversial judicial elections, results showed on Tuesday.
In Mexico, nine newly elected Supreme Court justices received their certificates of victory following the country’s first-ever judicial elections in May. The incoming head of the Supreme Court ...
Judicial elections, as they are conceived, are a half-hearted democracy: unknown candidates, empty campaigns and a disoriented citizenry. For voting to be meaningful – and not just a political ...
Electoral watchdogs at the Organization of American States have expressed concern over the low turnout in Mexico’s historic and contentious judicial elections. They're recommending that ...