Brazil Election: Flávio Bolsonaro and Alexandre de Moraes Controversy

What the is going on in Brazil right now?

Well, let me put it this way.

Imagine you lose an election, and seven minutes later, a judge

comes for your passport.

That's exactly what happened to Flávio

Bolsonaro, a sitting senator in Brazil,

on Sunday night, when

Supreme Court Justice

Alexandre de Moraes authorized police to

seize it. The case was about a bank account, and

that same morning, the

bank had told the court

Bolsonaro's name wasn't even on it.

Two days later,

he crossed into Argentina and landed in

Miami. The crazy part is that

the judge who signed the order has a

bank story of his

own. His wife's law firm declared

80.2 million reais, Brazil's currency,

in payments from a bank,

and the contract shows edits from

a user under the justice's own

name. The prosecutor general

closed a probe into

it before those edits

even came out. Moraes

denies any wrongdoing.

Anyway, Flávio

Bolsonaro is under

investigation, may well be

guilty, and broke a court

order when he left.

But none of that answers

a separate question: Why

does the judge seem to play

by different rules?

Both things can be true at once.

One of the senators who

will weigh whether

that judge gets impeached is Marcel Van

Hattem, a Students for

Liberty alum just elected

into Rio Grande

do Sul. If you've been

following the whole drama

too, let me know what you think

about the results of the election in Brazil in the comments section.

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