Time to investigate Brazil's Supreme Court justices? (preview)
About this episode
The episode discusses the growing dissatisfaction with Brazil's Supreme Court amid political polarization and its role in democracy.
Amid deepening polarization and the judiciary’s growing role in the country’s political life, Brazil’s Supreme Court has become accustomed to being rated poorly by a significant share of the population. In recent years, most of that opposition has come from the far right, which saw the court as a barrier to its onslaught on democracy — including the attempted coup following the 2022 election. The problem now is that the dissatisfaction has become widespread — and is being driven precisely by ...
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