The vote advances one of the most far-reaching judicial overhauls in any major democracy in recent decades, raising tensions in Mexico over whether the measures will improve the functioning of the country's courts or politicize the judiciary.
In the hope of delaying the vote, striking workers formed a human chain to block access to Mexico's lower house. But legislators switched venues to a sports complex and proceeded with the debate.
The lower house will now have to iron out more than 600 details of the bill before it moves to the Senate, where the ruling bloc is just one seat short of a supermajority.
Eight of the 11 Supreme Court justices voted to suspend sessions in support of striking judicial employees, joining hundreds of judicial workers who went on indefinite strike last month.
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