When the Bench Becomes a Family Business: Inside Brazil’s Supreme Court Ethics Crisis

2026-02-05 - 18:15

Key Points Eight of Brazil’s ten Supreme Court justices have close relatives working as lawyers in the same courts they control — and 70% of those relatives’ cases started only after the justices were appointed Police found a R$ 129 ($25) million contract between a fraud-ridden bank and a justice’s wife, triggering a Senate investigation