Laws that will implement a recently enacted judicial overhaul in Mexico should be presented in Congress in the coming days, said lower house leader Ricardo Monreal on Friday.

Mexico’s Supreme Court agreed to a request by judges and magistrates to consider a review of the judicial overhaul approved by congress last month, according a person with direct knowledge of the decision.

Mexico's Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to consider a constitutional challenge to the controversial judicial overhaul enacted last month that will move the country over the next few years to a system of popularly elected judges.

Mexico's Supreme Court agreed Thursday to consider a legal challenge against controversial constitutional reforms making it the first country to elect all judges by popular vote, irking the ruling party.