Brazil's Supreme Court Fractures Ahead of Presidential Election

On the eve of a presidential election, Brazil's Supreme Court finds itself fractured from within — a rupture that places the nation's constitutional guardian in the uncomfortable position of being both referee and combatant. The dispute, rooted in long-running tensions over judicial authority and political influence, raises a question as old as democratic institutions themselves: who watches the watchmen? At the moment when courts matter most, this one is divided against itself, and the country must now reckon with what it means when the arbiter of last resort cannot agree on the rules of its