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Brazil's Top Court Defies Trump, Signals No Retreat on Bolsonaro

Brazil's Top Court Defies Trump, Signals No Retreat on Bolsonaro

Bloomberg6 days ago
Donald Trump's tariff threat against Brazil over a legal probe into his political ally, former President Jair Bolsonaro, caught the Supreme Court in Brasilia off guard.
The top court is in recess during July — not all its judges were even in the country — making it difficult to convene to formulate a response. But a group of justices including Alexandre de Moraes, who is overseeing the former president's case, immediately began discussing a response aimed more at asserting national sovereignty than easing tensions with the US.
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