The Intercept Brazil<\/a>, Flavio received at least 61 million Brazilian reais ($12 million dollars based on the current exchange rate) from the banker last year to make a movie about his father.<\/p>\nLuciano da Ros, a political scientist at the Brazilian Federal University of Santa Catarina, said that the purpose of the Supreme Court hearing wasn\u2019t just to \u201cdivert the focus of Fl\u00e1vio\u2019s involvement in the scandal with Daniel Vorcaro \u2014 which seems to be even bigger than Alexandre de Moraes\u2019 \u2014 but it also serves this goal of mobilizing the right\u2019s agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n
Supreme Court Justice Andre Mendon\u00e7a, whom Bolsonaro nominated in 2021, helped achieve that goal. He has led legal action against Moraes. And now, another Bolsonaro nominee, Justice K\u00e1ssio Nunes Marques, presides over the country\u2019s Superior Electoral Court, underlining the political divide in the country\u2019s top courts.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, when you add this behavior by Mendon\u00e7a at the Supreme Court with decisions that Mendon\u00e7a and, for instance, K\u00e1ssio Nunes have taken within the Electoral Superior Court, there is a sense that these judges are operating politically in order to try to help Fl\u00e1vio win the elections,\u201d said Fabio de Sa e Silva, a professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n\nView Image: RenatoVieira-1024×768.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nRenato Vieira Ortiz is a Brazilian street vendor who sells coconuts for a living.Michael Fox\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nRenato Vieira Ortiz, 65, who sells coconuts on the street for a living, said he\u2019s never seen a court so divided and in conflict. \u201cThis institution is in crisis,\u201d Ortiz said. \u201cIt\u2019s even in an ideological crisis. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be like this. The court is supposed to be neutral. And now we see that where the money is, the power is also there.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Lula now says that if he\u2019s reelected, he\u2019ll call for judicial reform.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to tell how the crisis in Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court will impact the country\u2019s elections. But the discourse is clearly inspiring Bolsonaro supporters ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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