Brazil's top court suspends impeachment of President Rousseff
Source: Buenos Aires Herald
Brazil's Supreme Court has suspended impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff until it rules on a secret vote that stacked a congressional committee with opponents trying to oust her.
The decision late on Tuesday by a judge appointed by the president has stopped the creation of the committee until Brazil`s top court can meet on Dec. 16 to decide whether the unprecedented secret ballot was valid.
The ruling was a reprieve for Rousseff because a court decision could favor her situation by curbing the power of her right-wing nemesis, Lower House Speaker Eduardo Cunha. Cunha, who himself faces a possible congressional investigation on corruption charges, began the impeachment proceedings last week based on an opposition accusation that Rousseff broke Brazil's budget laws.
The delay could also give Rousseff's opponents more time to mobilize public sentiment against an unpopular president who is besieged by recession and a graft scandal that has ensnared dozens of her allies less than a year into her second term.
Justice Luiz Edson Fachin, whom Rousseff appointed to the court in June, said in his decision that the suspension of the impeachment proceedings was needed "to avoid acts that could eventually be invalidated by the Supreme Court."
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They never gave up trying to destroy her predecessor, former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, long after he left office.
They are terrified he will run again, and, of course, win again.
The dirty Speaker Cunha is being held up, protected by his supporters, although it's well known he has been in trouble for a long time.
This looks like good news, but the right-wing is powerful, just as it is here, being financed by Brazil's ugly, greedy, murderous class which terrorized Brazil before with kidnappings, torture, and murder of political dissidents. President Dilma Rousseff, herself, was tortured relentlessly, imprisoned. Other political prisoners who were with her have spoken publicly of her strength, resilience, courage in the face of horrendous abuse.
It's absurd to think she spent so much of her early life fighting against this barbaric group only to become one of them in her later years. Everyone knows that didn't happen.
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Dilma Rousseff before the military court.
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As you may remember, his abdication last year was triggered in large part by this little peach of a photo:
How majestic! The murdered elephant, I mean. 
