Marcos Rogério: 'The Judiciary that is not independent has no right to be called a judiciary.'
Marcos Rogério: 'I can guarantee [...] in Brazil the Judiciary [...] and it is courageous.'
I have brought here excerpts from two speeches by two magistrates of our Supreme Court, in a setting external to the STF, and I would say, and here I say, that the mere fact of observing Ministers of the highest Court holding external debates, and worse, even in internal meetings of the Supreme Court, opening sessions of political debates, addressing topics of politics and ideology, already shows us that we are experiencing a serious crisis in our Justice system.
Marcos Rogério: A judge's primary mission is to be an adjudicator and, in the mission of judging, one of the basic requirements is impartiality, the equidistance from the passions of politics, from circumstances, from the day-to-day of a society that may have differing views.
Marcos Rogério: But no: when one presumes to, when one mixes the role of adjudicator with that of political activist, that reveals to us a crisis difficult to repair.