nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220926-230716-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220926s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220926-230716-0 doi eng 342 23 Leal, Fernando Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-9004-5904 The Court, the Text, and the Struggle for Constitutional Fidelity in Brazil Leal, Fernando Verfassungsblog 2022-09-26 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Brazilian Supreme Court is currently a polarizing institution. Multiple institutional features empower it to control the constitutionality of federal, state, and municipal norms both in the course of concrete and abstract review cases. The Court stands in the complicated position of being criticized for both its actions and its inaction, while it is called to adjudicate demands by actors from all points of the political spectrum, and as it has recently come to face unprecedent authoritarian attacks. And here is the crux of Brazilian current constitutional situation: the anti-institutional speech that has been put forward by Bolsonaro and his supporters has in some cases, on its face, not been against the Constitution per se. It is presented as if it were against institutions. CC BY-SA 4.0 Pereira, Thomaz Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-court-the-text-and-the-struggle-for-constitutional-fidelity-in-brazil/ raw object