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.
And I say: what we are living through in Brazil is the deepening of a crisis precisely because the Judiciary has left its rightful place.
Marcos Rogério: I repeat: the serious crisis we face is because the Judiciary has left its place of origin, ceased to fulfill its constitutional mission to act as a political instance, with an ideological bias, with political passions.
Marcos Rogério: This has diminished the stature and importance of the Brazilian Judiciary.