Thread by @BrianMteleSUR

Greenwald is lying about Brazil's Supreme Court, falsely claiming that its 1st working group ruling on the Bolsonaro case is made up of faithful allies of Lula. Yet 3 of these 5 ministers voted to open an exception to the Constitution to imprison him on flimsy charges in 2018+

During its first 14 years on power, the PT used technical criteria to choose Supreme Court justices - an ethical move that is never done in the US. It came back to haunt them, as most voted in favor of Rousseff's frivolous impeachment and Lula's arbitrary political imprisonment.

Bolsonaro broke from tradition by politicizing the court, appointing far right reactionaries, Nunes Marques and André Mendonça. Here's Michelle Bolsonaro, praying, crying and speaking in tongues the moment Mendonça's nomination was confirmed.

After Bolsonaro's military coup attempt failed on January 8, 2023, Lula decided to do what any US president would do and appoint two allies to the court: his socially conservative former defense lawyer Cristiano Zanin, and former communist party governor of Maranhao, Flavio Dino.

Alexandre de Moraes, the investigation judge who has become victim of international far right smear campaigns, was appointed to office by conservative, illegitimate coup president Michel Temer, who supported Bolsonaro's election campaign and is a man Moraes defends to this day.

Minister Carmen Lucia was nominated on strictly technical criteria by Lula in 2006. Later, she voted in favor of the crime-less impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.

Conservative Luis Fux, was appointed on strictly technical criteria by Dilma Rousseff in 2011. Later, he authorized impeaching her for the non-impeachable budgetary infraction of "fiscal peddling" that she was later exonerated for which was legalized 2 days after her impeachment

Glenn frames the fact that the Bolsonaro case is being judged by the Courts' 1st working group instead of the full court as a legal dirty trick. Yet on 12/07/2023 the Court ruled 11-0 to delegate criminal cases to the working groups. Even Bolsonaro's nominees voted for this.

Criminal cases were ruled on by the working groups until 2020. The 2023 ruling reverted to standard procedure. Minister Luís Barroso justified his vote on this by saying that it added a "double degree of jurisdiction", meaning it opens space for a final appeal to the full court.

Here's a link on the decision, supported by both of Bolsonaro's far right appointees, to delegate criminal trials to the Supreme Court working groups. cartacapital.com.br/justica/compet…

So then, you might ask, why is Alexandre Moraes, the judge who oversaw the coup investigation, a member of this working group? That's how the law works in Brazil. That fact that he was the investigation judge automatically means the case goes to his working group.

As anyone with any rudimentary knowledge of Brazil's laws knows, the fact that this case is being ruled on in the working group actually benefits the defense, since it opens up some space, under certain circumstances, for a final appeal to the full 11 member body of the Court.