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> The idea that Lula is using his political power to take Bolsonaro out of the game is laughable, IMO. I doubt Lula is calling up Superior Court justices and t
by skissane 3y ago
> The idea that Lula is using his political power to take Bolsonaro out of the game is laughable, IMO.
I doubt Lula is calling up Superior Court justices and telling them what to do-but he doesn’t need to. It is like the 2000 US case of Bush v Gore-all the Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices voted for Bush, all the Democratic-appointed justices voted for Gore. The first outnumbered the second, so Bush won the Presidential election. Neither candidate or party ordered the justices to vote a particular way-they didn’t need to.
The US court system has been corrupted by politicisation. The same appears to be true of Brazil-and Argentina too. Indeed, I wonder if there is any judicial system in the Americas which is free from that disease. (Canada, maybe?)