SUPREME COURT
Brazil gets a new, discreet chief justice
Edson Fachin: A discreet justice who defends restraint from his Supreme Court peers. Photo: Victor Piemonte/STF
Edson Fachin will be sworn in today as the new chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court, pledging to strengthen the institution’s legitimacy amid mounting political attacks. In Brazil, the chief justice serves a two-year rotating term, with the post typically going to the longest-serving justice yet to have presided over the court. Fachin has been on the Supreme Court since 2015.
Justice Fachin is known for…
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