The Federal Supreme Court was part of the solution when an authoritarian president threatened the constitutional regime. It is hoped that it will remain on the right side of history given the need to self-reform for the benefit of institutional balance.
The wear and tear of the court does not result from its role as a squire of democracy, but from the mistaken decisions of its members, who began to expand their already expanded orbit of individual command on their own and to thicken the layer of self-protection that surrounds them.
Prosecuting and trying scammers does not allow the magistrate to enrich himself at the expense of businesspeople interested in court trials. Stopping subversions does not protect against liability for misconduct.
Whoever puts those convicted of plotting the overthrow of the political order in prison does not get a free pass to persecute their critics. This confusion of seasons is what is undermining the population’s confidence in .
At the request of , the former governor (Novo) is threatened with the labyrinthine investigation that for seven years has given an exceptional tool to ., a practice protected by freedom of expression, with criticism of supreme magistrates.
It is expected that the Attorney General of the Republic, , will not endorse the attempt to elevate a STF minister to the category of unquestionable divinity. about relationships between and .
The court’s luck in this moment of crisis is to be under the presidency of . Without the vituperation of some of his colleagues, he has persisted in the message that the court needs to open itself to criticism and take the reins on reforms that make absolute common sense, such as the implementation of elementary rules of conduct.
It seeks to convince the majority to put an end to the anomalous investigation, under the argument that the remedy, once effective against an adventurous president, is now more like poison to blunt citizens’ confidence.
Fachin sees politics changing and moving to the right, while the moderate center loses the will to defend ministers in the face of He concludes that it is better for the Supreme Court to carry out its own reform, otherwise it will come from outside and tend to be worse for the country.
At a good time, the minister added the words, which in no way contradict the agenda of the President of the House. This is the mature and constructive response expected from members of the high court. Don’t attack them. Not the persecutions.
