The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) declared a request presented by the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) inadmissible, which sought to prevent four ministers of the highest court from discussing a project regarding judges who sought protection against the judicial reform.
Although no formal recusal request was presented by three magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal, there was a request from the judicial institution for the president minister Norma Piña and ministers Alfredo Gutiérrez, Jorge Pardo, and Javier Laynez not to vote on this matter. According to national media, this request was included in a report submitted by the Electoral Tribunal to the Supreme Court.
The vote on this project was six against the inadmissibility and rejection, with the three ministers (Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, Lenia Batres Guadarrama, and Yasmín Esquivel Mossa) opposing it. Before the vote, Minister Loretta Ortiz Ahlf noted that there is no specific regulation for the processing of recusal requests; she considered that it is the responsibility of the high court to act with the utmost responsibility and strict adherence to the norms established by the legal framework.
For her part, Minister Lenia Batres stated that the recusals from the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal were admissible, as the project presented by Minister Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena proposes a jurisdictional resolution and not an internal issue of the Federal Judicial Power.
By a majority of six votes, the ministers deemed the TEPJF's request inadmissible, which sought to declare President Minister Norma Piña, as well as Ministers Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, Javier Laynez, and Jorge Pardo Rebolledo, unable to discuss the project.
