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Related: About this forumBrazil's top court suspends impeachment of President Rousseff
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 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."
At: http://buenosairesherald.com/article/204659/brazils-top-court-suspends-impeachment-of-rousseff
Judi Lynn
(160,570 posts)before it has done its worst, but wouldn't that be wonderful?
This could be so damned important if everyone does his job in straightening out this trap.
We all know Dilma Rousseff wouldn't have given so much of her life, and suffered such agony to go on to become one of them. Only a pervert would believe otherwise.
Thanks for bringing forward this news. It could be so huge for good people everywhere.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Actually using the courts to stop unconstitutional acts before they are carried out.
We should give that a try here too. Maybe the Constitution could mean something again. That would have meant no Selection 2000 for example here. No court appointed Presidents.