In June 2024, Mexico's ruling party proposed a sweeping constitutional reform: electing Supreme Court justices through a public vote. The legal system hasn't stopped shaking since.

Legal scholars, human rights advocates, and Mexico's judicial elite sounded the alarm — warning the reform would politicize justice and empower corruption.

In cities across the country, protesters took to the streets chanting for justice — and warning of democratic backsliding.

Just weeks after her election, incoming president Claudia Sheinbaum publicly endorsed the reforms — giving them unstoppable momentum.

By mid-July, the Mexican Congress passed the reform — ensuring national judicial elections would happen for the first time in 2025.

Eight of eleven Supreme Court justices, including Chief Justice Norma Piña, resigned in protest. Their message: this isn't justice — it’s theater.

Billboards, rallies, donations: by fall 2024, judicial candidates were running like politicians. Justice was now a popularity contest.

On this unprecedented day, millions of Mexican citizens voted for Supreme Court justices and hundreds of other judges across the country.