Organize and direct the Judiciary; Knowledge of legal proceedings involving senior officials of State, when the National Congress has declared to lead to formation of the facts; Identifying the second instance of matters Courts Appeals have met in the first instance; To hear extradition cases and the other to be judged according to international law; To hear appeals under, review and unconstitutional under this constitution and the Law; Authorize the exercise of notary who have obtained the law degree; Meet the preliminary hearing at first instance against the Judges of the Appellate Courts; To appoint and dismiss judges and judges on a proposal Council of the Judiciary; Publish the Judicial Laws (Gaceta Judicial); Prepare the draft budget of the judiciary and send to Congress; To set the division of territory for jurisdictional purposes; Create, delete, merge or transfer the Courts, Courts Appeals and other units of the Judiciary; To issue its own internal regulations and other necessary things to fulfill their duties and; The other powers conferred by the Constitution and Laws.