Tag: Brazil Federal Supreme Tribunal

• Monday, June 26th 2017 - 03:41 UTC

  Only 7% Brazilians still support Temer amid corruption allegations

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer reached a 7.0% approval rate in June, sinking deeper from the 9.0% measured in April, the Datafolha Institute reported, as the sitting head of state contnues to come closer to Jose Sarney's all time record of 0%, registered in 1989.

• Monday, June 5th 2017 - 08:29 UTC

  Decisive week for Temer's presidency; Electoral Court could have him ousted

  

  Brazil's Michel Temer is already fighting a devastating corruption scandal, but this week he faces a more immediate threat: a court ruling on whether he should even be president. The case in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal or TSE was long considered a slow-burning sideshow to the developments in Brazil's corruption revelations, which have now reached the top.

• Thursday, May 19th 2016 - 12:07 UTC

  Brazilian Justice gives Rousseff ten days to reply the claims of “a coup”

  

  Brazils Supreme Tribunal (STF) Justice Rosa Weber has given suspended president Dilma Rousseff ten days to explain her repeated statements that the impeachment process started against her is a “coup”. Rousseff is not obliged to respond. The STF decision follows a request from a group of lawmakers via the House's prosecution office.

• Friday, August 21st 2015 - 06:42 UTC

  Brazil's prosecution seeks to charge Lower House speaker and a Senator on Petrobras corruption

  

  Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday asked the Federal Supreme Court to authorize prosecution of the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, in a massive corruption case centered on state-controlled oil giant Petrobras.

• Friday, November 23rd 2012 - 20:15 UTC

  Brazil has its first ever black head of the Supreme Court

  

  Brazil judge Joaquim Barbosa took the oath of office as Brazil's first ever Afro descendant head of the Federal Supreme Tribunal (Supreme Court) on Thursday, in a historic ceremony attended by President Dilma Rousseff and other top leaders.

• Thursday, August 16th 2012 - 04:31 UTC

  Supreme Tribunal rejects request to include Lula da Silva in the corruption scheme

  

  Brazil Federal Supreme Tribunal denied on Wednesday a request to include former president Lula da Silva in the so-called “trial of the century” involving 38 former ministers and lawmakers accused of an extended bribes scheme.