{"id":1187,"date":"2026-04-26T20:35:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:35:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:35:51","slug":"wounded-impartiality-the-republican-limbo-of-the-brazilian-supreme-court-and-the-principled-fallacy-of-adpf-919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Wounded Impartiality &#8211; The Republican Limbo of the Brazilian Supreme Court and the Principled Fallacy of ADPF 919"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>A critical response to the article &#8220;A plea bargain agreement cannot prevail over the Constitution,&#8221; by Lenio Streck and Andr\u00e9 Karam Trindade<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Murillo Gutier<\/strong> | murillo@gutier.adv.br<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">This article critically examines the thesis that &#8220;plea bargain agreements cannot prevail over the Constitution,&#8221; advanced by <strong>Lenio Streck<\/strong> and <strong>Andr\u00e9 Karam Trindade<\/strong> in the context of <strong>ADPF 919\/DF<\/strong>. While the proposition is, in the abstract, legally defensible, the analysis demonstrates that the <strong>doctrinal silence<\/strong> regarding the <strong>objective impartiality<\/strong> of <strong>Brazilian Supreme Court (STF)<\/strong> Justices involved in the <strong>Banco Master<\/strong> scandal constitutes a <strong>principled fallacy<\/strong>. By confronting the principle of <em>nemo iudex in causa sua<\/em> with the absence of effective mechanisms for controlling <strong>judicial recusal<\/strong> at the apex of the Brazilian judiciary, the article argues that <strong>ADPF 919<\/strong> reveals a pattern of <strong>supreme anti-republicanism<\/strong>, in which the Constitution is invoked not to limit power but to immunize it. The study draws on <strong>comparative law<\/strong> (Germany, the United States, Spain, and Portugal), precedents from the <strong>ECtHR<\/strong>, the <strong>IACtHR<\/strong>, and the <strong>STF<\/strong> itself, as well as contributions from <strong>Ferrajoli<\/strong>, <strong>Alexy<\/strong>, <strong>H\u00e4berle<\/strong>, <strong>Bobbio<\/strong>, and <strong>Loewenstein<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> judicial impartiality; ADPF 919; plea bargaining; Banco Master; republicanism; <em>nemo iudex in causa sua<\/em>; judicial recusal; principled fallacy; separation of powers; constitutional law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<a  data-e-Disable-Page-Transition=\"true\" class=\"download-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br?download=1186&amp;tmstv=1777298095\" rel=\"nofollow\" id=\"download-link-1186\" data-redirect=\"false\" >\n\tWounded Impartiality - The Republican Limbo of the Brazilian Supreme Court and the Principled Fallacy of ADPF 919 - Murillo Gutier\t(1 download\t)\n<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critical response to the article &#8220;A plea bargain agreement cannot prevail over the Constitution,&#8221; by Lenio Streck and Andr\u00e9 Karam Trindade Murillo Gutier | murillo@gutier.adv.br Abstract This article critically examines the thesis that &#8220;plea bargain agreements cannot prevail over the Constitution,&#8221; advanced by Lenio Streck and Andr\u00e9 Karam Trindade in the context of ADPF &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/?p=1187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue lendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wounded Impartiality &#8211; The Republican Limbo of the Brazilian Supreme Court and the Principled Fallacy of ADPF 919&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[375,323,369,368,370,227,373,371,372,374,146,156],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direito-constitucional","tag-banco-master-en","tag-brazilian-supreme-court-stf","tag-constitutional-law-en","tag-judicial-impartiality","tag-judicial-recusal","tag-lingua-estrangeira","tag-plea-bargaining","tag-principled-fallacy","tag-republicanism-en","tag-separation-of-powers-en","tag-stf","tag-supremo-tribunal-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murillogutier.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}