Mexico Supreme Court invalidates National Guard transfer to army

The ruling represents a major roadblock to President López Obrador’s agenda to militarize the corps that he originally created to be a civilian security force.

CODY COPELAND / April 18, 2023

MEXICO CITY (CN) — In a brutal blow to the agenda of Mexico’s president, the country’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that last year's transfer of the civilian National Guard to the military was unconstitutional.

The transfer was approved this past September via a legislative reform to the 2019 law that created the National Guard. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador initially tried to push the transfer through with a constitutional reform, but he did not have the necessary support from Congress.

The project received the minimum eight votes necessary to rule a law unconstitutional. López Obrador appointees Loretta Ortiz Ahlf and Yasmín Esquivel Mossa — currently in hot water for having plagiarized both her undergraduate and doctoral theses — voted against the initiative, as did former Chief Justice Arturo Zaldívar.

The National Guard must now return operative and administrative control to the Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection.

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