Nassif: Fachin commits reputational suicide
“The term 'reputation assassination' has already entered the common vocabulary of commercial and political disputes. 'Reputation suicide,' however, is a new element that is clearly evident in the actions of Minister Luiz Edson Fachin of the STF (Supreme Federal Court),” says journalist Luis Nassif on his blog.
247 – “The term 'reputation assassination' has already entered the common vocabulary of commercial and political disputes. 'Reputation suicide,' however, is a new element that is clearly evident in the actions of Minister Luiz Edson Fachin of the STF (Supreme Federal Court),” says journalist Luis Nassif on his blog.
"Why would a jurist, who has spent his entire life building a social and rights-based image, make a 180-degree turn? And with a huge aggravating factor: he was a rights-based advocate when the Power (that appointed him to the Supreme Court) valued those who upheld rights; he became a fierce and biased punitivist at the very moment when the Power demands punitivism with a very clear focus on preventing Lula's candidacy for president."
Even the most insensitive of characters would realize the reputational risk inherent in this combination. Fachin engaged in a boundless holy war, not only in his votes, but by resorting to every procedural maneuver imaginable—a cunning that is poison to the core of the image of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court itself.”
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