| > Would you please provide references for us that don't know this background? Of course. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543423 This is is an informative and well referenced HN comment that captures the nature of this supreme court quite well. There were some "environmentalprogress" articles submitted to HN about this matter. Not idea how trustworthy that source is but they seemed to be quite thorough. I generally only link major news websites so I'll refrain from linking them. > I won't even get into the separation of the "Three Powers" (legislative, executive and judiciary) Doesn't matter. Separation of powers? Ha. This is Brazil. Legislative? Supreme court legislates, has been legislating for years, decades. They were all voting on the legality of abortion and drugs just months ago. This one judge even went to the actual legislators with "suggestions" on the censorship bill that he personally supported. When he didn't get his way, he used his electoral court judge position to ram it down our throats anyway. Executive? Our world touring champagne sipping socialist president would not even be in power right now were it not for these guys. They literally released him from the jail he was incarcerated at in order to take out Bolsonaro. It's not even a secret, they literally showboat about it in public. They're quite proud of it all. In fact it's probably Lula's political strategy to ally with the supreme court to impose whatever he wants on the people, just like his Venezuelan dictator buddy. Judiciary? They can't even keep themselves separate. All this began in 2019 or so when some magazine published some damning article on one of these guys. Thus began the "fake news" inquisition which is still on-going to this day half a decade later. They gave themselves seemingly unlimited powers to censor anyone they want over a magazine article or something. The supreme court itself is the victim, the investigator, the judges and the executors. It's comical. > he shares "the power" with other 10 supreme-court judges, and he is not even the president of it Guess whose name is listed as the leader of the aforementioned inquisition which greatly expanded the supreme court's powers. > But Bolsonaro is being investigated for his attempted coup d’etat, and instead of collaborating with the Justice system, he is attacking a Supreme Court's judge. |
- 8 of 11 supreme ministers were appointed by the ruling mafia. Recently Lula appointed his lawyer and his minister of justice as supreme court ministers.
- Deltan Dallagnol, one of the prosecutors in the Operation Car Wash which imprisoned Lula and the most voted congressman for the state of Paraná was expelled from congress by the STE (composed in half by STF ministers) via a reinterpretation of a technicality.
Just the tip of the iceberg.