Overview
- The Supreme Court (SCJN) held that soldiers and sailors may face military courts for illicit exercise of public service only if the conduct breaches the chain of command and obstructs core Armed Forces objectives.
- The Plenary approved the methodology in a 6–2 vote on January 27–28, adopting the project by Chief Justice Hugo Aguilar Ortiz.
- Judges must now determine jurisdiction case by case, and matters that do not meet the strict standard remain with ordinary criminal courts.
- The decision settles a contradiction of criteria in file 185/2025 that arose from divergent federal rulings over weapons theft and diversion of medical supplies at military facilities.
- Ministers Giovanni Figueroa Mejía and Irving Espinosa Betanzos dissented, questioning the methodological sequence for deciding jurisdiction.