Arena ou Jogador: Uma investigação sobre a judicialização de conflitos internos à Câmara dos Deputados por seis integrantes

Abstract

The aim of this work is to give a step further towards the reasons that make congressmen to take their internal conflicts to the Supreme Court. We analyzed all the Mandados de Segurança in which deputies questioned the Chamber of deputies from the promulgation of the 1988 s constitution into the impeachment of the president Dilma Rousseff in 2016. Thus, through a qualitative analysis of other deputies reaction to this phenomena in their chamber discourses we could test our hypothesis that the congressmen see the Supreme Court as an arena, absorbing it in their legislative strategies without seeing the Supreme Court gain of power as a problem, even when using the Mandado de Segurança , a tool that makes possible the judicial intervention during the legislative debate, and not after the enacting of a bill or when a decision that requires majority is already taken. Besides the qualitative analysis, we did engage in a quantitative approach to comprehend which factors result in a bigger judicialization of legislative internal conflicts.