The move spares the country’s new president from having to choose between recognizing a court decision to strike down the overhaul or aligning with her party’s leaders and ignoring it.

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s Supreme Court fell short by one vote Tuesday to strike down parts of a controversial judicial system overhaul recently pushed through the congress by the ruling Morena party in a dispute between judges and the government of ...

Mexico’s Supreme Court dismissed a ruling intended to limit the scope of a judicial overhaul passed by Congress, easing concerns of a standoff with President Claudia Sheinbaum that risked setting off a constitutional crisis.