THE BRAZILIAN SUPREME COURT ON THE POLITICAL CRISIS 2013-2018: ITS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES BEFORE THE POLITICAL ELITE

• Autor(a) principal: Lunardi, Fabrício Castagna
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistadireito/article/view/37281
• topic: Political crisis. Noncompliance. Political elites. Judicial strategies. Brazilian Constitutional Court.; Crisis política. Incumplimiento. Elites políticas. Estrategias judiciales. Supremo Tribunal Federal brasileño.; Crise política. Descumprimento. Elites políticas. Estratégias judiciais. Supremo Tribunal Federal.

This paper has a purpose to investigate some decisions of the Federal Supreme Court that potentially confront interests of government and political elites, the strategies used to decide and impose its decisions, as well as the strategies of the political class to default, direct or indirectly, overlap or retaliate with the Brazilian Constitutional Court. To this end, the research is developed on the option of a critical-methodological line, based on the topic and the legal-diagnostic methodology, seeking to problematize the theme from the qualitative analysis of selected cases, judged by the STF during the political crisis 2013-2018, in order to investigate the weaknesses of the Court and the set of strategies of the various actors in this intricate political game. In the end, it is concluded that admitting the weaknesses of the Brazilian Constitutional Court, considering the intricate political game in which it is immersed and analyzing the set of strategies of the various actors are fundamental premises to develop studies that can contribute to improve the institutional capacity of the Court of decide and impose their decisions when they address the interests of political elites.