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This paper investigates how institutional actions regarding the use of emergency expenses leadership empowerment in current democratic regimes. It analyzes extraordinary credits, an instrument that allows emergency expenses in Brazil from 2001 to 2016. The country spent more than $200 billion through extraordinary credits in the period. The article presents data from 169 laws enacted by the president authorizing those credits and the restrictions made by the Supreme Court related to those laws. In 2008, for the first time in Brazilian history, the Supreme Court revoked one of those laws. Our models support that this decision: (i) caused a decrease in the number of laws authorizing extraordinary credits, (ii) led an increase in the monetary value authorized per law, and (iii) in the end, affected the total monetary sum authorized per semester.

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