Brazil Votes to Bar Bolsonaro From Office for Election-Fraud Claims

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“A majority of Brazil’s electoral court voted to block former President Jair Bolsonaro from office until 2030 for spreading false claims about voting.

A majority of judges on Brazil’s electoral court have voted to block former President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking public office for the next eight years, removing a top contender from the next presidential contest and dealing a significant blow to the country’s far-right movement.

The judges ruled that Mr. Bolsonaro had violated Brazil’s election laws when, less than three months before last year’s vote, he summoned diplomats to the presidential palace and made baseless claims that the nation’s voting systems were likely to be rigged.

By late Friday morning, four of the court’s seven judges had voted that Mr. Bolsonaro had abused his power as president when he convened the meeting with diplomats. “

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/world/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-banned-office.html

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Now US courts need to grow a spine and enforce the law against insurrectionists EVER HOLDING OFFICE AGAIN.

 

The Insurrection Bar to Office: Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment

 

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Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment provides:

No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and VicePresident, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability