Tag: Brazilian Supreme Court

• Saturday, April 7th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Lula negotiating his surrender following a Saturday mass for his deceased wife

  

  Ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's polarizing election frontrunner and leftist icon, was negotiating his surrender after dramatically skipping a first deadline Friday to start his 12-year prison sentence for corruption.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Brazil's conundrum: Army chief twits “good citizens repudiate impunity and respect the Constitution”

  

  The commander of Brazil's army added tension on the eve of a Supreme Court decision on whether former President Lula da Silva should be allowed to exhaust his appeals process before being sent to jail for a corruption conviction.

• Monday, February 12th 2018 - 15:56 UTC

  Federal Police chief questioned for comments denying alleged bribery involving president Temer

  

  Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luis Barroso asked for the head of the Federal Police to clarify comments he made in a Reuters interview published a day earlier regarding an investigation of President Michel Temer.

• Monday, July 31st 2017 - 08:10 UTC

  Decisive vote in Brazilian lower house for president Temer's future in office

  

  The Brazilian Congress will return from recess this week and could bring back political uncertainty fears to local markets, as lawmakers are set to decide on Wednesday if the Supreme Court should trial President Michel Temer for corruption. Temer was formally charged with passive corruption by the prosecutor-general Rodrigo Janot at the end of last month.

• Friday, July 7th 2017 - 07:01 UTC

  Temer's defense and allies working for a quick end to political uncertainty

  

  Embattled Brazilian President Michel Temer quickly presented his legal defense against corruption allegations to lawmakers, a move seen as a bid to reduce the likelihood of being suspended from office and tried at the Supreme Court. Temer's lawyer submitted the defense on the second day of Chamber of Deputies commission proceedings to consider the matter, eight days ahead of deadline.

• Tuesday, June 6th 2017 - 07:03 UTC

  Temer receives 84 questions from the federal Police; he has 24 hours to reply

  

  Brazilian media are reporting late Monday that the country's federal police have asked embattled President Michel Temer 84 questions related to an investigation of corruption allegations against him. Temer has faced growing calls to resign amid the scandal. He has 24 hours to reply to the questions delivered Monday afternoon.

• Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 - 06:53 UTC

  Mastermind of Lula's corruption cases temporarily released from jail

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release from prison of Jose Dirceu, who was convicted of graft-related crimes after serving as cabinet chief of ex-president Lula da Silva. Dirceu has been detained since 2015 in connection to a vast corruption scheme known as Car Wash.

• Sunday, April 2nd 2017 - 08:34 UTC

  Electoral Court decides this week on continuity of Temer's presidency

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer is facing a terrible week, with a court theoretically annulling his presidency and forcing him to step down from office. Temer is widely expected to find a way to escape this. But the mere fact that a court is considering such a thing shows the depths of uncertainty in Latin America’s biggest country as it tries to survive in a huge corruption scandal, a two-year recession and record unemployment.

• Friday, March 24th 2017 - 11:50 UTC

  Temer close aide sworn as a Justice in Brazil's Supreme Court

  

  Jurist Alexandre de Moraes was sworn into office as a Justice in Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday. Moraes will fill the seat left by Justice Teori Zavascki, who died in a plane crash in January. Moraes headed the Ministry of Justice when was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Michel Temer. His nomination to the top court was confirmed by the Senate last month. He is expected to take charge of 7,500 cases as he joins the court.

• Thursday, December 8th 2016 - 11:44 UTC

  Brazil Supreme Court defuses clash with Senate, but Calheiros no longer in presidential succession line

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Court voted Wednesday to leave Senate President Renan Calheiros in his powerful leadership post, raising hopes economic overhauls making their way through Congress can be approved.