STF e opinião pública: como o populismo judicial estruturou decisões da Corte no curso da operação Lava Jato

Abstract

The presente paper conducts a study on the development of judicial populismo and the problems involving its manifestation in the Supreme Federal Court, in the period of the “Lava Jato” operation. For this, it develops a broad historical survey on the emergence of constitutional courts to the establish an analysis of the role of the Supreme Court in Brazilian constitutional jurisdiction. Then, it discusses the concepts of political and judicial populism to, finally, verify its manifestations in court decisions.