Amnesty By Another Name

Amnesty By Another Name

Professor James Hankins has written a sincere but largely misguided piece advocating for what amounts to a national guest worker program with a delayed pathway to citizenship. He proposes, with appropriate modesty, that “The advantages of this [immigration] proposal may not seem obvious at first sight to Republicans.” Let me, with all due humility, suggest that the alleged advantages are not obvious because they are not there. While Hankins’s pr…

The urgent request for the bill that amnesties those convicted of the January 8 acts was filed this Monday (14) with the support of five central parties that hold offices on the Esplanada dos Ministério. This group has 146 deputies. Among the signatures, 40 are from União Brasil; 35 from the PP; 28 from Republicans; 23 from the PSD; and 20 from the MDB. Proportionally, the parties that provided the most support in relation to the total number of…

The party collected 264 signatures in favor of taking the issue to the plenary. 257 were needed.

The order issued on appeal by the Supreme Court confirming that embezzlement is not amnestiable within the framework of the amnesty is going to have consequences that were not anticipated by the Government and that, if they follow things along the path outlined, they will prevent that crime from being the subject of amnesty, even if the Constitutional Court, with extreme difficulty if it does, establishes another interpretation of what is a cons…