Mexico’s Supreme Court may make history if it rules states can not vote to keep their bans on marriage equality. The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation effectively made equal marriage legal back in 2015.
It ruled then that state laws that restrict marriage only to heterosexual couples are discriminatory. However Mexico’s Constitution doesn’t allow the court to change the state laws straight away.
That’s allowed a mixed picture where same-sex couples can marry easily in some states but need to follow a long legal process to force the issue in others.
Meanwhile the new challenge comes as the President of the Supreme Court Arturo Zaldívar lost his temper with states dragging their heels over the issue.