nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220505-182241-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220505s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220505-182241-0 doi eng 342 23 Oliveira de Sousa, Felipe Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-6444-7683 Constitutional Power Struggle in Brazil - Jair Bolsonaro and the Supreme Court Are on the Brink of a War Oliveira de Sousa, Felipe Verfassungsblog 2022-05-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 20th April 2022, the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) convicted Federal Deputy Daniel Lucio da Silveira to eight years and nine months imprisonment, based on his verbal attacks against the democratic rule of law, Supreme Court judges and other state institutions. The next day, President Bolsonaro issued a controversial decree granting pardon to the Deputy and ordering the immediate extinction of all the punishments imposed by the Supreme Court. Even though the constitutionality of the decree can be debated, the main discussion is a political, not a legal one. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarianism Bolsonaro Brazilian Supreme Court Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/constitutional-power-struggle-in-brazil/ raw object