Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the Supreme Court of the United States was like nine scorpions in a bottle. The Brazilian Federal Supreme Court has 11 ministers and is going through the worst moment of its existence.
There have already been cases of clashes between the court and the Executive. Sometimes clashes occurred with Congress, but they were mild. This time, the collision course is with public opinion. A Quaest survey revealed that, for the first time, the percentage of people who do not trust the Supreme Court (49%) exceeded that of those who do (43%).
This new development occurs in a scenario that does not involve political divergences. What wears down the Supreme Court are personal conduct, authoritarianism, shielding and even farofas.
The minister discussed the need for a code of conduct on the table and was repelled by some of his peers as if he were proposing a poison.
The Supreme Court band that blocks the code has not yet realized that they are strengthening the idea that the current Praetorium Excelso has gained fame as the worst court of all time.
Maxwell is rede
The electronic edition of A Conspiração de Minas e o Atlântico Revolucionário”, by professor Kenneth Maxwell, author of the celebrated “A Devassa da Devassa”, is online.
With new documents, he revisits the United States’ attempted involvement in the miners’ conspiracy. In 1786, student Joaquim Maia e Barbalho discussed the matter with Thomas Jefferson, then United States ambassador to France. Jefferson didn’t want trouble with Portugal.
The background to this story was a small book, with a collection of documents from the American revolution. Two copies of the booklet were in Brazil and one passed through the hands of Tiradentes.
The “English Americans”, as the subversives were called at the time, were mentioned 90 times in the investigations of the Inconfidência Mineira and the revolutionary books had 15 mentions. Dangerous people, those Americans.
In this book, Maxwell makes an audacious statement: “José Bonifácio was everything Thomas Jefferson would have liked to have been.”
The dangerous collection of texts remained in the archives until 1860, when historian Alexandre de Mello Moraes donated it to the public library in Florianópolis.
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