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It looks like we're going to have politicians instead of judges, dominated by the political party in power who is currently acting like a dictatorship with the way this Constitutional Reform was passed, and Mexico's justice system is going to fall further into the abyss of injustice and corruption.

However judges get on the bench, it can be a mixed bag of corruption. Elected judges will be more responsive to the public but their decisions can be more political. Appointed judges can disregard political pressure but are too often deep in the pockets of special interests. One only has to look at the US Supreme Court to see how bad that can be. I don't know which avenue is worse.

With this so-called Reforma, Morena has taken solid control of the judiciary, a judiciary that was the only counterweight to the excesses of Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador, since his party, Morena, already controls both chambers of Mexico's Congreso. The great majority of the population that blindly supports Morena also blindly believes the propaganda painting Mexico's judges as corrupt. While it's doubtless that some are threatened by criminals and others lack ethics, the great majority are hard-working people trying to do the best with what little they have. Police often beat and torture suspects. Prosecutors often do a pitiful job of building their cases, possibly on purpose. Judges can't allow the rights of the accused to be so profoundly trampled, leaving no recourse but to dismiss cases. This is the ammunition Morena uses to label judges as corrupt, ignoring humans rights abuses and omissions of the law by prosecutors. And Morena's uninformed followers accept it. The presidenta electa Claudia Scheinbaum appears to support the imposition of this Reforma, claiming that's what we voted for in the June elections. A comment that bodes poorly for her 6-year term. Like many Mexicans, I'm in favor of judicial reform, but replacing judges with politicians has nothing to do with addressing the problems that need fixing. It'll simply strengthen Morena's hold on power by giving them control over judges that currently no political party has, creating a new dictatorship.