The US Supreme Court will decide whether a federal law prevents Mexico from suing gun distributors for allegedly facilitating the flow of firearms to drug cartels.

The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether to block a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against leading U.S. gun manufacturers over allegations their commercial practices have helped caused much bloodshed there.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday her administration would not be "provoked" by the country's Supreme Court accepting to hear a challenge to a controversial judicial reform that was passed into law.

The justices will consider whether a 2005 law that gives gun makers broad immunity applies in the case, which accuses them of complicity in supplying cartels with weapons.

Mexico’s Supreme Court agreed to a request by judges and magistrates to consider a review of the judicial overhaul approved by congress last month, according a person with direct knowledge of the decision.

Mexico's Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to consider a constitutional challenge to the controversial judicial overhaul enacted last month that will move the country over the next few years to a system of popularly elected judges.

Mexico's Supreme Court agreed Thursday to consider a legal challenge against controversial constitutional reforms making it the first country to elect all judges by popular vote, irking the ruling party.