The prosecutions culminated on Sept. 11, 2025, when the country’s highest court found Bolsonaro and his co-conspirators guilty of crimes against the country’s democratic institutions and rule of law.

If we take the time to put this into historical perspective, however, we see that the judgments handed down in recent years against members of the ruling class are, in fact, part of a movement to liberate the judiciary from other powers, particularly the executive.