Supreme Court of Justice Mexico's equivalent of the Supreme Court of the United States, the SCJ frequently takes a more casual view toward consititional compliance, seeking the righting of wrongs and establishment of "people-friendly" case law over conservative strict compliance. For this reason, the Mexican system is frequently decried as inconsistent or unpredictable. Judges in the court are appointed by the president (long a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party), and approved by both houses of Congress (also controlled by the PRI government). The court's authority is complete over both state and federal issues, though it has few methods through which to enforce decisions.