Following the 2024 Mexican general election, the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition secured a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies and came three seats short in the Senate.

The alliance, along with its presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, campaigned on enacting a package of constitutional reforms known as "Plan C".

[2] One of its key proposals was the popular election of the federal judiciary, which outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed would eliminate corruption.

[3] On 1 September 2024, the bill was introduced in the LXVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress, triggering nationwide protests and strikes over concerns that it would undermine judicial independence.

On 31 October 2024, each branch of government revealed the jurists selected to form their respective evaluation committees.

[18] The committee refused to comply, which prompted the TEPJF to direct the Senate's Board to select the judicial branch's candidates via sortition.