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Supreme Court of Justice

  • Spanish: Corte Suprema de Justicia

Governs Guatemala

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Who sits on it

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Sources for who sits on it

  • President of the Supreme Court of Justice constituteproject.org · checked
  • Teodulo Ildefonso Cifuentes Maldonado as President of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice constituteproject.org · checked
  • Carlos Ramiro Contreras Valenzuela as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Carlos Rodimiro Lucero Paz as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Claudia Lucrecia Paredes Castañeda as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Clemen Vanessa Juárez Midence as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Eduardo Adolfo Cárdenas as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Flor de María Gálvez Barrios as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Flor de María García Villatoro as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Gustavo Adolfo Morales Duarte as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Igmaín Galicia Pimentel as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Jenny Noemí Alvarado Teni as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Luis Mauricio Corado Campos as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • René Guillermo Girón Palacios as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
  • Teodulo Ildefonso Cifuentes Maldonado as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice es.wikipedia.org · checked
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What it can do

  • Highest ordinary court

    Heading the Judicial Branch and hearing cassation appeals (Constitution arts. 203, 214).

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  • constituteproject.org · checked Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala (1985, amended 1993), read 2026-10-12: Executive (arts. 182-202), Legislative (arts. 157-181), Judiciary (arts. 203-222), Constitutional Court (arts. 268-272), departmental governors (art. 227). Names per Wikipedia (es) and official sites; Fallback: Wikipedia, because congreso.gob.gt is behind a bot-wall (Incapsula). For: Supreme Court of Justice
  • constituteproject.org · checked Spanish official names from the Constitution and ministry names on the gabinete page, read 2026-10-12. For: Supreme Court of Justice in Spanish
  • constituteproject.org · checked Constitution of Guatemala, read 2026-10-12: article cited in the description. For: Highest ordinary court
  • constituteproject.org · checked Constitution of Guatemala, read 2026-10-12: selection method, term and size (arts. 157, 184-189, 193, 214-215, 227, 269); ministries per https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabinete_de_Bernardo_Arévalo. For: President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice
  • es.wikipedia.org · checked Wikipedia (es), Corte Suprema de Justicia de Guatemala, read 2026-10-12: 13 magistrates 2024-2029 (from 2024-10-13); president Cifuentes since 2024-11-19 (one-year presidency, re-election not independently verified). Fallback: Wikipedia, because oj.gob.gt was not checked. For: Teodulo Ildefonso Cifuentes Maldonado as President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Carlos Ramiro Contreras Valenzuela as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, Carlos Rodimiro Lucero Paz as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, Claudia Lucrecia Paredes Castañeda as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, Clemen Vanessa Juárez Midence as Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice and 9 more

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