"The broken wire is our political system — the rules by which some candidates are able to be the only names on the ballot. When every choice is bad, voting seems pointless," attorney David Lebedoff ...

Mexico's historic judicial elections attracted little attention, but the implications could be far-reaching.

Demonstrators shouts slogans against the country’s first judicial elections, while holding signs that read in Spanish, “RIP Democracy” at a protest in Mexico City, Sunday, June 1, 2025.

Now, the 52-year-old Aguilar, a lawyer from the Mixtec people in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state, will be the first Indigenous Supreme Court justice in nearly 170 years in the Latin American ...

Hugo Aguilar campaigned for Mexico’s Supreme Court with the simple message that he would finally give Indigenous Mexicans a voice at one of the highest levels of government. Aguilar said before ...

Critics attributed his win to Mexico’s highly popular president repeatedly saying she wanted an Indigenous judge on the Supreme Court in the lead up to the election.

Hugo Aguilar campaigned for Mexico’s Supreme Court with the simple message that he would finally give Indigenous Mexicans a voice at one of the highest levels of government.

The Morena party controls most of Mexico’s government. Its sway over the Supreme Court is set to increase after a judicial election that raised fears about democracy.

It was muggy in Tijuana on Sunday morning when voters made history. Every judge at every level in every court in Baja California — and most across Mexico — were on a ballot. Surveys by the ...

Nearly 90 percent of voters did not cast ballots on Sunday, one of the lowest turnouts in any federal election since Mexico became a democracy.