As a Brazilian myself it couldn’t have been any better day for the progressive society which was rooting in a dark place of uncertainty for far too long for a closure on this issue (which has been postponed/dragging for over a decade).

However have no shred of doubt cause the dilema is still swirling. It does bring some medicine to a deep divide in Brazil’s social fabric involving a biting topic: the police’s social profiling over race and social class that is an institutionalized teaching impregnated in the police mentality.

The Brazilian judicial system is scrambling to finish cases resting in tribunals, and this can bring about a needed end. Furthermore the country’s penitentiary system is overwhelmingly filled with people of color and poor for petty crime such as drug possession. It could come to an end.

Anyhow, the right wing is already battling this verdict at its own benefit as it’s rallying the narrative that the Supreme Court has overturned and disavowed the legislative’s say on the matter, by insinuating that Brazil is living under a “dictatorship of the judiciary” by overstepping on the legislative.