http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200605-013317-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-constitutional-military-intervention-brazil-on-the-verge-of-democratic-breakdown/ The ‘Constitutional Military Inter­vention’: Brazil on the Verge of Democratic Breakdown Archegas, João Victor Kreuz, Leticia eng 2020-06-04 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Bolsonaro Constitutional Law Democratic Backsliding supreme court Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 After numerous judicial defeats in the past couple of months, Bolsonaro chose to travel down the path of intimidation and defiance rather than institutional reform: Through dubious constitutional interpretation, he and his supporters are ascribing to the armed forces the role of a "constitutional moderator" in order to undermine the independence of the Supreme Court.