Until recently, the STF’s priority was to sentence the Bolsonarist conspirators of the attempted coup d’état. Now, it has changed. The ten judges dedicate themselves to the mission of preserving a secret: the exact nature of the relationships between two of them, Toffoli and , with Banco Master’s business. The show they are staging already has two acts and has not yet ended.
It’s not the sea, but panic, that drowns you. Two acts, two mistakes made in the current of despair. First act: a confidential meeting illuminated by a clandestine recording. Second act: a brutal investigation added to the arbitrary investigation of fake news. The specter of conflict of interest spares no one: it descends on the entire court.
In the initial act, he promoted a secret meeting to bury the secret in a deep grave. The plan was riddled with illegalities. The evidence of Toffoli’s conflict of interest offered by the PF called for public deliberation, not collusion under the cover of night. The solution of removing the rapporteur accompanied by an official note rejecting the suspicion constituted a noble agreement designed to protect the judge from the imperative investigation.
From the clandestine recording, a casual but fair punishment of the ten actors in the farce, an unretouched image of a dying man emerged. “My team is STF Futebol Clube” – Dino’s phrase, a synthesis of the spirit of the club, deserves a frame. The ministers in black capes led a corporatist orgy. They told citizens that their team is not justice, the law or institutions, but the personal interests of each of them. Fachin and Cármen Lúcia, the duo who insisted on the rapporteur’s exile, became partners in the cover-up plot.
Never swim against a strong current. Moraes defies the rule in the second act, transforming his original exception inquiry into a passport for a one-way journey through the labyrinth of illegality. Suspects of unmotivated access to tax data do not have jurisdictional prerogative, but are investigated by the STF. The new case was appropriated by the rapporteur of an endless investigation without a defined object, surrounding the canon of the draw. Selective judicial secrecy paves the way for the disclosure of the identities of the accused. Raw intimidation replaces due process.
The secret must persist. The STF’s doctrine states that black-coated judges are above the “law of nations” – and comrade Paulo Gonet, PGR, agrees. The plot of ten contaminates the political arena. Lula, the godfather of Toffoli’s nomination, is trying to free himself from the historical association that affects his candidacy. The PF would not face the wrath of the court without the support of Planalto. The pillars of the alliance between the Executive and the STF are cracking: the president is an “ingrate”, in the word used away from the microphones by some judges.
The public contortionism of the supreme aristocrats rescued the 01 candidacy from a walled ghetto, giving verisimilitude to the extremist narratives. Flávio Bolsonaro was an almost guarantee of Lula’s triumph. Toffoli and Moraes, with the help of eight colleagues, created the scenario for a competitive dispute. After helping to stop the coup, the “STF Futebol Clube” unwittingly becomes an electoral campaign for the extreme right. Carnival, costumes, allegories.
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