| Mexican High Court Rules That Only Feds May Legislate Against Organized Crime The Mexico Gulf Reporter | |
| go to original June 25, 2014 |
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GUADALAJARA - Mexico's Supreme Judicial Court ruled this week that none of the country's 31 states or the Federal District may enact criminal legislation targeting organized crime organizations, a power which it said is reserved exclusively to the federal congress under extensive constitutional reforms passed in 2008.
Meeting in full session, all 11 judicial ministers voted to strike down laws passed by Nuevo León in 2013, which would have authorized the lengthy preliminary detention of suspected organized crime members without trial. Nuevo León has been racked by drug war violence in recent years.
The lawsuit was brought by Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), which challenged the Nuevo León state statutes as a violation of core constitutional protections.
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