•SURPRISE Justice Eduardo Medina Mora resigned abruptly from Mexico’s Supreme Court after having completed only 4 years in the highest court and cutting his 15 year term short; President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Mexican Senate have to accept the resignation.
•PROBE Medina Mora did not made public the motive behind his resignation but Mexican Government sources said the 62 year old justice is being investigated for money laundering by Mexico’s Attorney General Office after the Mexican Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) filed a complaint.
•KEY FIGURE Medina Mora arrived to the Supreme Court in 1995 after a controversial nomination process having worked prior as Attorney General during Felipe Calderon’s Administration and as Mexico’s Ambassador to the US under the previous Government of Enrique Peña Nieto.
•UNCOMMON The last time a member of the Mexican Supreme Court left his post was almost 30 years ago when Ernesto Díaz Infante requested a leave of absence in 1990 after corruption allegations. In 1994, Congress reduced the number of Justices from 26 to 11.
