♟️ Institutional gambit

Brazil’s Supreme Court has taken another step to insulate itself from its most aggressive critics — and, in the process, it has deepened Brasília’s institutional trench warfare ahead of the 2026 election.

In an injunction issued by Justice Gilmar Mendes, the Supreme Court’s longest-serving member, Brazil’s top court has effectively made the impeachment of its own justices almost unattainable. The ruling rewrites key parts of the 1950 Impeachment Law as they apply to the judiciary.

Mendes ruled that, from now on…

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