Brazil's Supreme Court, the constitutional cornerstone of the nation's democratic architecture, is experiencing a rare and unsettling fracture from within — not the ordinary friction of differing legal philosophies, but something closer to a breakdown of the collegial bonds that allow an institution to speak with moral authority. When the body entrusted with holding all other power accountable loses coherence within itself, the entire system of checks and balances it anchors begins to tremble. History reminds us that institutions are only as durable as the shared commitments of those who inhab