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Brazil's Supreme Court Places Bolsonaro Under House Arrest

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Re: Brazil's Supreme Court Places Bolsonaro Under House Arrest

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This is just continuing a disturbing trend of lawfare, censorship, and constitutional violations from Brazil’s top courts. Whether it is Trump doing it or Brazil’s courts, targeting political rivals this way is corrupt and can destabilize society.

Re: Brazil's Supreme Court Places Bolsonaro Under House Arrest

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This is just continuing a disturbing trend of lawfare, censorship, and constitutional violations from Brazil’s top courts. Whether it is Trump doing it or Brazil’s courts, targeting political rivals this way is corrupt and can destabilize society.

If Bolsonaro was responsible for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_January_Bras%C3%ADlia_attack...

how should a democratic society respond?

Re: Brazil's Supreme Court Places Bolsonaro Under House Arrest

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This is just continuing a disturbing trend of lawfare, censorship, and constitutional violations from Brazil’s top courts. Whether it is Trump doing it or Brazil’s courts, targeting political rivals this way is corrupt and can destabilize society.

What's the part about this that's lawfare?

Re: Brazil's Supreme Court Places Bolsonaro Under House Arrest

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This is just continuing a disturbing trend of lawfare, censorship, and constitutional violations from Brazil’s top courts. Whether it is Trump doing it or Brazil’s courts, targeting political rivals this way is corrupt and can destabilize society.

What's the part about this that's lawfare?

The part where the current president's former lawyer is one of the "impartial" judge-kings involved in the case.

"We defeated Bolsonarism!" -- Barroso, one of the judge-kings.

Is further proof necessary?

Re: Brazil's Supreme Court Places Bolsonaro Under House Arrest

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post #6

This is just continuing a disturbing trend of lawfare, censorship, and constitutional violations from Brazil’s top courts. Whether it is Trump doing it or Brazil’s courts, targeting political rivals this way is corrupt and can destabilize society.

If Bolsonaro was responsible for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_January_Bras%C3%ADlia_attack... how should a democratic society respond?

Brazil is not a democratic society, it's a dictatorship of the judiciary. Not a single brazilian voted for these judge-kings who also legislate and execute.

That "attack" was directly caused by the "activism" of these judge-kings on the eve of the 2022 election. They engaged in blatantly unconstitutional political censorship and disproportionately targeted Bolsonaro and his supporters. Journalists and online influencers were forced to seek political asylum in other countries.

It wasn't enough to make a mockery out of our constitution, they also had to brag about it in public. They actually went to public events to showboat about their accomplishments. "We defeated Bolsonarism!" -- Barroso, an "impartial" supreme court judge-king.

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