Politics

A Senator, a Suspended Law, and a Vacant Supreme Court Seat: Brazil's Slow-Motion Constitutional Crisis

In the span of nine days this spring, Brazil's Senate rejected a presidential Supreme Court nominee for the first time in 132 years, Congress overrode a presidential veto to slash Jair Bolsonaro's coup sentence, and a single justice froze the law one day after it took effect. Five months later, the Supreme Court still hasn't ruled — and a presidential election is now bearing down on all three storylines at once.