Mexico’s Supreme Court on Tuesday announced it would suspend its work this week in response to a contentious sweeping judicial reform plans proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The reforms proposed by left-wing populist López Obrador include the direct election of judges, including those on the Supreme Court. By a vote of eight to three, the Supreme Court voted to stop their work and join a broader protest by some 1,700 Mexican judges. Law students also joined the protest while thousands of judicial employees have stopped working. The courts are only handling urgent cases. The Su…