Here is a selection of the best phrases published in 2025 in this column and in my weekly comments in the newsletter.
PUBLIC SAFETY
“The Military Police are the guarantors of public order and they do not use force, as lay people believe.”
Cássio Araújo de Freitasformer commander of PM-SP
Antonio Torres Garcia and Ricardo Mair Anafe, from TJ-SP, each received two medals from the PM on two consecutive days. Garcia will work in a Public Law Chamber. Military honors must be rare.
The governor used TJ-SP to promote Rota.
Guilherme Derrite, then São Paulo Secretary of Security, said that beating wheelchair users is
“We have created an unnecessary crisis in public security simply by having a secretary who does not understand the institutional complexity of society”
Leandro Piquetfrom USP
“The police must guarantee it. The PM gives up a lot to live the life he leads and guarantee our safety.”
Edison Brandãojudge at TJ-SP
LAW AND ETHICS
“The law has always pampered ‘my father’s friend’s friend'”, as Marcelo Odebrecht referred to Toffoli. The minister decreed “absolute secrecy” in the Master’s process. It is not known what he talked about with Augusto Botelho, the bank director’s lawyer, during the trip on the private jet.
“A criminal lawyer should never be judged for the defense of a citizen.”
Hugo Leonardopresident of
There is the legal profession that markets prerogatives in the Executive and that takes care of the right to defense.
Botelho said that “institutionally it does not exist”.
Alexandre de Moraes seems to see no ethical conflict in the contract between Banco Master and his wife’s office revealed by the newspaper O Globo, with expected revenue of R$129 million in three years.
Senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE) said in a Senate session that he was not satisfied with “the repeated hiring” of lawyers who are ministers’ wives.
“You cannot find a procedural act that justifies payments in the volumes they receive,” he stated, without giving names.
“We are not an essentially corrupt country. We are poorly audited”, Stephen Kanitzspecialist in balance sheets.
The Master case confirms the poorly audited country. The pressure to inhibit the Federal Police reveals an essentially corrupt bloc in the Chamber.
VIRTUAL JUSTICE
“The trial by virtual plenary was never truly collegial. The ministers are no longer in the Court”, Airton Florentino de Barrosattorney.
“There is no justification for magistrates to impose a “, Vieira de Mello Filhopresident of the TST.
Augusto Aras returns to rewrite his history. He joined the association of members of the Public Ministry (Conamp), hailed as a “defender of unity”. By default, he escaped the ANPR triple list.
Bolsonaro was the myth in the barracks…
CONDUCT IN THE SPOTLIGHT
“Judges make mistakes and must be held accountable”, Edson Fachinby promising attention to victims of gender inequality.
The STF needs a code of conduct. The fear of judges is that ministers will maneuver so that restrictions apply to everyone but them.
Fachin has advisors who have been circulating on red carpets for years. They are judges allergic to processes.
The CNJ allowed another reading of the acronym by creating a national group of judges.
BRAZILIAN CARAVANS
The registry office lobby, shielded by the Judiciary, continues to omit information about the trip of STJ ministers to France and Germany.
Gilmar Mendes’ IDP continues to do school.
The STJ does not know who paid.
“The STJ does not cover expenses for air tickets and daily travel that are not for institutional representation of the court, therefore, in the service of the Court” (institutional response from the Citizenship Court).
Barroso defended Gilmar’s caravans in Lisbon. He saw criticism from the press for criticizing spending of public money on private events. There are no nuns in the higher courts.
GOLPISM ON THE DEFENSE’S BANK
The court ordered coup officers who threatened the sovereignty of civil power to return to their barracks, from where they should never have left.
Medical care dedicated to criminals in high boots should also be mandatory for elderly people with bare feet.
“Any delay or leniency against those who commit notorious acts and crimes, in this case the former President of the Republic, could lead him to a cowardly escape and us, the people, plus the PGR, to insurmountable shame”, Caetano Lagrastaretired judge.
THE NEW TRF
In full term, the second president of TRF-6, Vallisney Oliveira, builds a list of former presidents. “We are on the right path,” he said.
The Federal Court of Minas Gerais reduced working hours to pay for energy. Purchased 25 vehicles for R$4 million for the new TRF.
GENDER VIOLENCE
“He attacks his neighbor with a shovel, his sister with punches. An individual with a highly aggressive, intemperate and violent temperament”, former national inspector Humberto Martinsabout Luís César by Paula Espíndola.
“What harms his return now? Leave of absence is not a penalty. It’s better that he gets paid by working”, former national inspector João Otávio de Noronha, about Espíndola.
Espíndola headed a family law chamber after attacking his judge sister.
The column returns in January. Happy holidays and happy 2026!
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