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Re:Brazilian court orders suspension of X by IG_Semmelweiss on Friday August 30, 2024 @11:45PM (#41406429)
Yes. However checks and balances work because the other branches will choose to assert their power over a branch that is overstepping. However, the other branches are in the hands of the ruling socialists, and they are just happy to let the judiciary do their dirty work. And, they have quite a few skeletons still in their closet after the Lava Jato scandal.

Anyway a thorough explanation of the applicable law, point by point

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

Re:Brazilian court orders suspension of X by cassianoleal on Saturday August 31, 2024 @05:55AM (#41407676)
> However, the other branches are in the hands of the ruling socialists

I'm sorry, but... what?

The Executive is the one closest to this qualification, but Lula, Haddad, Zé Múcio, Tebet and the others in power are nowhere even close to being socialists! Lula perhaps, until about a couple decades ago was a little bit closer but now he's not even on the left very much.

The Congress and the Senate, on the other hand, are mostly in the hands of neopentecostal evangelicals, the pro-gun nutjobs, the agrobusiness tycoons and other capitalists and fascists.

Re:Brazilian court orders suspension of X by IG_Semmelweiss on Saturday August 31, 2024 @09:14AM (#41408654)
Let's see:

1 - EXECUTIVE:

Lula is in the literal workers' party.

Fernando Haddad, Minister of Finance, did his own Master's dissertation defending socio-economics of the USSR, before the USSR collapsed and was an embarrassment for cocktail communists everywhere. The guy who calls economic shots is literally a communist fanboy.

Carlos Lupi, also Minister, is literally one of the vice presidents of the Socialist International . The word socialist is literally in the name, and he is VP of it worldwide!

2 - CONGRESS:

The opposition is in clear minority in in both chambers[1]. The opposition has almost a 2:1 deficit vs the Government inside the Chamber of Deputies

3 - MACRO:

The president's own party is in an alliance with the communist party[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Congress_of_Brazil [2]