The Judge That Is Resisting Brazil’s Lava Jato
The Judge That Is Resisting Brazil’s Lava Jato
By
Elisangela Mendonça
As Brazilians fight against corruption and cronyism, one Supreme Court judge insists on doing things the old-fashioned way.
Brazil has a long tradition of politicized courts. But even in that context, Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Gilmar Mendes is unique, as he is both as an extreme manifestation of this tendency and a revealing case study in what this tendency means for the judicial system and the country.
Consider: the senior 61-year-old judge counts the country’s most powerful politicians, including the president, among his close friends. His close and regular contact with them continued even as some of them...
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