ON JUNE 30TH Brazil’s highest electoral court barred Jair Bolsonaro, who was the country’s president until the end of 2022, from holding public office for eight years. A populist of the far right who had little respect for democracy, he has now been cast out of electoral politics for undermining public trust in the integrity of Brazil’s voting system. In July last year he invited dozens of foreign diplomats to the presidential palace to present them with a slideshow in which he asserted that Brazil’s voting machines were unreliable. Mr...

Latinoamérica once again is showing us how it’s done. Scarcely half a year after the January 8, 2023 attack on Brazil’s capitol by supporters of ultra-right wing former president Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Supreme Court concluded that Bolsonaro had abused his power by casting unfounded doubts on the nation’s electronic voting system and banned him from running for elected office until 2030, effectively destroying his political career. Some readers may remember that eight days into this very busy year, a large gaggle of Brazilian domestic terrorists decked out in bright yellow...

A panel of judges voted Friday to render far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ineligible to run for office again after concluding that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country's electronic voting system. The decision, once all judges have voted, will forbid Bolsonaro from running until 2030, upending the 68-year-old's political future and likely erasing any chance for him to regain power. Four of the seven judges on the nation's highest electoral court agreed that Bolsonaro abused his authority by using government communication channels to promote...

A majority of judges on the top election court in Brazil voted to ban former President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking office again until 2030 for making claims the court says were false about the country’s voting systems. The seven-judge panel found the right-wing populist guilty of abuse of power for allegedly undermining the country’s democracy while in office. Bolsonaro was voted out of office in 2022 after losing the election to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by a narrow margin. Bolsonaro is a close political ally of former U.S....