Supreme Court Crisis Spills Into Brazil’s Presidential Race
The dispute has halted some court work and fueled campaign attacks as justices weigh investigations tied to Banco Master and alleged impartiality.
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The evangelical Supreme Court justice shaping Brazil’s election
Right-wing judge's decision overturned the next day: Brazil's judicial chaos intensifies, with civil war within the Supreme Court escalating ahead of the presidential election. In Brazil, ahead of the presidential election on the 4th of next month, an unprecedented civil war within the judiciary is spiraling into absurdity. Supreme Court justices with political polar opposites are engaging in a fierce battle over an investigation into financial …
An investigation by a millionaire financial fraud provoked a confrontation between magistrates of the highest court, which ended up involving the Federal Police and the political sectors of Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, a few weeks after the October 4 elections.
Senator and presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro raised political and institutional tension in Brazil on Wednesday by accusing the judge of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Flávio Dino of acting to protect President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and of intervening indirectly in the electoral campaign.Criticisms emerged after Dino left [...] The entry Flávio Bolsonaro accuses the Supreme Judge of acting to protect Lula in the middle of the presiden…
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