The SuperMoro
“The judge, or SuperMoro as he is being referred to by Brazilians, has reignited the flames of a former Brazilian tradition: lynching,” one critic, Eliane Brum, wrote in a newspaper commentary.
Legal scholars say Mr. Moro belongs to a new generation of worldly, well-educated judges and lawyers who came of age during the post-dictatorship period, view themselves as beholden to no politician, and enjoy career protections that empower them to act without fear of reprisal.
A formative lesson for Mr. Moro and others of his generation was Italy’s Clean Hands Operation of the early 1990s, in which a nationwide corruption probe involving thousands of public figures resulted in a massive political purge.
Whatever lies ahead in Brazil’s turbulent political season, Mr. Moro’s colleagues don’t expect him to give in.
“He is not influenced by criticism,” said a person close to Mr. Moro. “It is like he wears a suit of armor. He is undisturbed.”
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Mr. Moro´s co-workers claim that no matter what happens in Brazil´s turbulent political season, he will not:
