Batres accuses court of 'insane animosity'; 'all I've heard are legal viewpoints,' she is told

A heated exchange erupted within Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) when Minister Lenia Batres Guadarrama accused her colleagues of "insane animosity" during a discussion on judicial notification procedures. The conflict arose after the majority of the court rejected Batres's proposed ruling on whether judicial notifications to authorities should be made by official notice or lists.

Batres, visibly frustrated, decided to withdraw her proposal. She expressed a desire to believe that the rejection was not influenced by a memo she had sent earlier that day to the Judicial Administration Body concerning the court's budget. "I see an insane animosity, I am going to withdraw it and I await your observations, and I truly wish I could believe it has nothing to do with the memo I sent today to the Judicial Administration Body regarding this Court's budget," she stated.

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I see an insane animosity, I am going to withdraw it and I await your observations, and I truly wish I could believe it has nothing to do with the memo I sent today to the Judicial Administration Body regarding this Court's budget.

Minister Yasmín Esquivel Mossa responded to Batres's accusations, calling them "worrying." Esquivel maintained that the debate had been strictly based on legal viewpoints. "I regret that there is this mood in a purely legal discussion, I hope it is not other elements like those that permanently intervene here in the ministers' moods, that lead them, well, to sustain, well, without arguments," Batres had said.

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So, let's be serious, we are serious. And they have been just points of view regarding the project. And to point out that what is being presented here is insane, well, I don't see where any of the considerations or expressions towards the person of the rapporteur minister are. In no way, these are expressions against the project that is presented to us today.

Esquivel countered, "So, let's be serious, we are serious. And they have been just points of view regarding the project. And to point out that what is being presented here is insane, well, I don't see where any of the considerations or expressions towards the person of the rapporteur minister are. In no way, these are expressions against the project that is presented to us today," she retorted.

Court President Hugo Aguilar Ortiz intervened to de-escalate the situation, emphasizing that no personal attacks had occurred. He stated, "no one has made a disqualification based on the person or based on any specific issue, it is even a contradiction of criteria. No other interest of any kind is involved."

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no one has made a disqualification based on the person or based on any specific issue, it is even a contradiction of criteria. No other interest of any kind is involved.