[matheusmoreira]

The brazilian supreme court has been breaking the law and relentlessly usurping power for years now.

It began in 2019 when some magazine ran a damning article on one of these judges. In response to that they launched a "fake news" inquisition where they were the victims, investigators, prosecutors, judges and executioners against unspecified persons for wildcard crimes covering the whole brazilian territory. Thus began the escalating abuses of the court.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382

The "fake news" inquisition was eventually repurposed for political censorship when Bolsonaro was up for reelection. Political censorship is explicitly unconstitutional, by the way.

It's pretty ironic to watch them condemn Bolsonaro for a coup attempt. Their own coup was quite successful.