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matheusmoreira • today at 5:21 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

> There don't seem to be any serious questions that the process was fair and that the Supreme Court was impartial

This is the supreme court that in 2019 launched a perpetual "fake news" inquisition where they are themselves the victims, investigators, prosecutors, judges and executioners of wildcard crimes against themselves with a jurisdiction covering the entire territory of Brazil.

Saying that Bolsonaro was convicted by this court carries less weight to me than saying he was banned by dang.

The whole point of electing a right wing senate and Bolsonaro's son was to impeach and hold accountable the judges of this court. Obviously, that's never going to happen now. Lula will put four additional judges in there, and will rule uncontested until the day that he dies. It's the Venezuela model.


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vintermann • today at 7:29 AM

That's right, it's the Venezuela model. It's also the Hungary model, the US model, the South Korea model, the Peru model, the Mongolia model, to name a few. All in recent years have had constitutional crises as a result of conflicts between a popularly elected president and a popularly elected legislative.

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EdwardDiego • today at 5:40 AM

You're going to have to provide some citations mate, because right now you sound like a conspiracist.

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max__dev • today at 6:17 AM

dang is usually fair. Do you have counterexamples?

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