Overview
- The Constitutional Court froze the selection process and told the nominating commission to rescore applicants who served as judges.
- The court ruled that time spent as a judge does not count toward the required years of legal practice for the post.
- The ruling set a 48-hour window for the commission to redo evaluations and a four-hour window for President Bernardo Arévalo to return any shortlist he had received.
- A six-person list drafted earlier in the week left out incumbent Consuelo Porras, who has been sanctioned by the United States, Canada and the European Union.
- The reassessment could change who qualifies or how finalists are ranked, placing the recently produced shortlist in doubt.