The president of (Supreme Federal Court), said on Wednesday (5) that the court does not do and that criticism on the subject is unfair.
Barroso returned to defend the Supreme after being criticized. In the previous occasion, the minister wrote an article in which he says that the
“It is possible not to like the constitution and the role it reserved for the Federal Supreme Court. But criticizing the Supreme for applying the constitution is simply not fair,” Barroso said on Wednesday, at the opening of the judgment session.
The president of the court said that it is up to the court to interpret and apply a “comprehensive constitution, which takes care of a large multiplicity of themes, which flow into the judiciary, brought by the most different actors of Brazilian society.”
He cited two actions in progress: A, about police operations in communities in Rio de Janeiro, and another that demanded from the federal government a.
“There are those who find it natural to live under indignant conditions of violence and unhealthiness. But that is not what is in the Constitution,” he said.
Barroso also stated that the Supreme’s decision does not constitute judicial activism to decriminalize the possession of up to 40 grams of marijuana – the limit to differentiate personal use from drug trafficking.
“There are those who natural that the police decide that the same amount, in the upper middle class neighborhoods, is size and, on the periphery, is trafficking, in odious class and race discrimination. But it is not what is in the Constitution,” he added .
The statements were made at the Supreme Court’s first trial session in the year. This Wednesday’s agenda has Favelas ADPF as the first theme to be debated.
