Renan Santos: Like having law firms doing business with everyone, as they did with ministers' relatives.
Renan Santos: having these single-judge decisions that end up creating, let's say, fiefdoms of power tied to the ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
an entry filter so that only matters strictly linked to constitutional questions run in the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) and it is not a court of everything. Today you have 8,000 actions in the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) if I'm not mistaken; in the American Supreme Court it's something like 50—no, 50 thousand, 50
Renan Santos: And then those more abstract matters, they are... There are obviously material issues tied to everyday American life, but you don't become the last instance for anything. That grants a lot of power. The main thing is to remove the political power of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal), the creation of a political court.
Renan Santos: to judge deputies and senators, which should not be the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal). This political court could be composed of appellate judges with two-year terms and they would handle the cases of the famous privileged forum that involve deputies and senators.