The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) concluded yesterday public hearings in which they participated people with disabilitiesderived from a case about prior consultation with that sector for the making of laws, with the promise of not resolving the issue in the dark.
For 15 hours, the ministers They listened to the concerns of 54 associations and groups, 34 individuals, three universities and schools, as well as agencies, legislators and officials.
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The hearings were called due to a proposal by Minister Lenia Batres to abandon a criterion of the old Court. In summary, he proposed removing the obligation for all the country’s laws or regulations to be subject to consultation by people with disabilities when they are issues that concern them..
Their argument was that in recent years laws, regulations and standards that benefited people with disabilities were invalidated just because the formality of consulting that sector was not complied with.
Given the accumulation of positions against his proposal, Batres announced that he would change his project.
At the closing of the exercise, Minister Batres said that “with humility I tell you that you have taught us a lot” and promised that the resolutions of the new Court will not be taken “in the darkness of a room with the pretense that we know everything and that we do not have to listen to anyone.”
Contrary to her initial defense of her project, yesterday Minister Batres acknowledged that “we do not know everything and we also know that people have the right to give their opinion, fundamentally the people involved in our resolutions.”
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He admitted that his project “we were not actually creating an ease for you but on the contrary, perhaps a complication, by recognizing exclusively your legitimacy when presenting any action of unconstitutionality by any legitimized subject.”
For its part, Minister Yasmín Esquivel said that the commitment assumed by the Court is to prepare a project only after listening to them, so now it is up to the Ministers to honor their word“with deep sensitivity and with the promise that we will not take a step without you.”