Tag: Brazilian Supreme Tribunal

• Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 11:10 UTC

  Brazilian Supreme Tribunal: of the eleven Justices, seven were named by Lula and Rousseff

  

  The Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal acts primarily as the Constitutional Court of the country, and its rulings cannot be appealed. The court is made up of eleven members, Justices, addressed to as Ministers, and they are appointed by the president and must be approved by the Senate.

• Monday, September 17th 2012 - 05:43 UTC

  Brazil’s ‘trial of the century’ culprits point to Lula da Silva as “the chief”

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva was “the chief” of the corruption network the ruling Workers Party had organized to have sufficient votes in Congress, according to a report published in the weekly Veja, the magazine with the largest circulation in the country.