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Leandro Ruschel stated that Edson Fachin was advocating for a reform of the Judiciary without altering guarantees, but he questioned which guarantees he was referring to. According to Ruschel, in recent years, the Federal Supreme Court had restricted constitutional rights such as free expression, association, and manifestation, in addition to the right to defense, the natural judge, and due process. He said this had occurred especially with people who did not align with what he called the court's leftism. Ruschel also criticized the defense that the reform should be made "with the Judiciary." According to him, it is up to the Legislative to draft laws, while the Judiciary should apply them and assess their compatibility with the Constitution. He added that courts can propose laws regarding their own organization, but the decision falls to Congress, and they cannot present constitutional amendments. For Ruschel, the expression used by Fachin would be a euphemism for the usurpation of Congress's powers. #Judiciário #Reforma #GarantiasCivis (translated)

Pedro Sánchez has requested the Supreme Court to stop the attempts by Feijóo and Abascal to question the constitutionality of the 'Grandchildren's Law', asserting that the right to vote should not be prohibited, but guaranteed, and emphasizing the importance of allowing naturalized citizens to vote in the upcoming elections. #LeyDeNietos #Sánchez #Elecciones2026 (translated)

Nicolas Redondo Terreros questioned the actions of the members of the Constitutional Court in the approval of the amnesty and argued that they had favored Pedro Sánchez and Carles Puigdemont. He claimed that the measure had served to secure the seven independentist votes necessary for Sánchez to remain in La Moncloa and rejected that its purpose had been to pacify Catalan society or facilitate political agreements. The author said that if the Supreme Court ruled against it, the Constitutional Court would still have to pronounce on the so-called "grandchildren's law." He also maintained that the magistrates had lost prestige and had acted in the service of a leader who, according to him, lacked scruples and threatened democratic balances. Redondo Terreros responded to Cándido Conde-Pumpido's assertion that going against the Constitutional Court was going against democracy. In his view, criticizing the court's management and its intervention in the Supreme Court's realm was also a way to defend it. #Constitución #Democracia #Justicia (translated)

Cándido Conde-Pumpido, president of the Constitutional Court, argues that questioning his authority implies questioning democracy, after issuing a historic ruling that orders amnesty for the leaders of the procés, including the crime of embezzlement. #Amnistía #TribunalConstitucional #Procés (translated)

Pedro Menin wrote that, after the Ana Elisa episode, his sources said that Lula's campaign had considered the possibility of him withdrawing from the candidacy and letting Geraldo Alckmin take his place, in an attempt to keep the PT in power. According to Menin, this hypothesis was motivated by the lower rejection of the vice president, and Lula and Janja would take on ministries. Menin stated that, according to Article 77, § 4 of the Constitution, a candidate who withdraws before the second round could not be replaced, and that Augusto Cury, as the highest remaining candidate, would enter the race. He also cited Article 13 of Law 9.504 and said that the substitution rule would only apply if the new registration was requested up to 20 days before the election, except in cases of death; for the second round, the constitutional rule would prevail. He stated that members of the campaign were angry and desperate in the face of a defeat they considered imminent, and said that just a few weeks earlier, no one believed in this possibility. Menin also predicted that Lula would be humiliated and that his political career would come to an end on the 25th, presenting the contest as a “Holy War” between what he called the people of God and the PT. #Lula #Eleições2024 #PolíticaBrasil (translated)

He is a political mafia; it is the state mafia. The president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who spoke before Feijóo, insisted that Spain is going through a "dark stage with a president who is a true cheater, who does not respect the rules of the game or the separation of powers, who uses the Constitutional Court dictatorial against the Supreme Court, kidnaps the institutions, uses the Permanent Commission in a twisted way and has the Upper House gagged. He does not respect the limits, wants to eliminate the judges, and uses the Tax Agency against his opponents." #Feijóo2026 #EleccionesEspaña #Democracia (translated)

On November 29, two key elections are held for the democratic functioning of Spain: the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, the latter being vital for electing judges of the Constitutional Court and members of the Judicial Council, in a context of political blockage by the Popular Party. #Elecciones2026 #Democracia #Senado (translated)

Jones Manoel stated that the Brazilian far-right was attacking Deputy Ana Elisa with lies and defamation for criticizing Flávio Bolsonaro's program. According to him, Bolsonaro advocated for ending retirement and the BPC, interrupting the appreciation of the minimum wage, altering the constitutional floor for health and education, and raising the prices of gasoline, electricity, and water. Manoel classified the program as a cause of death, misery, hunger, unemployment, and national destruction. He also said that those responsible would try to legally prevent the circulation of the video and requested that it be viewed before being taken down. #AnaElisa #DireitosHumanos #Justiça (translated)

Lupe Sánchez questioned why the National Court should hold back when investigating facts she described as extremely serious and that, as she wrote, affected the PSOE, if the Constitutional Court could protect a fugitive from justice amnestied by Sánchez in exchange for his seven votes in Congress. The publication included the phrase "Vote with the cards on the table." https://t.co/P4ecV4tRQp #Justicia #PSOE #Congreso (translated)

Sebastião Bugalho, vice president and spokesperson for the PSD, rejected a fundamental understanding between the PS and the PSD, discussing the need for guarantees of stability while moving forward with the budget and the constitutional revision requested by the PS. #Vichyssoise #PSD #EstabilidadePolítica (translated)

Allan Dos Santos related Minister Fux's decision to investigate Alexandre de Moraes’s actions to his own judicial experience in 2021. According to him, the magazine IstoÉ was ordered to pay moral damages and to grant a right of response for reports that accused him, along with Terça Livre, of receiving public money from Carlos Bolsonaro during the Bolsonaro government. Dos Santos stated that the cases were proceeding in the common court of Brasília, but that after the conviction, a law firm linked, according to him, to corruption scandals of the PT appealed directly to Moraes's office. The lawyer submitted Pet 9748, which, by the minister's determination, was converted into constitutional complaint Rcl 48870. According to Dos Santos, Moraes annulled the convictions in both cases. He added that the PGR expressed that the complaint was unfounded, seeing no legal basis to annul the convictions, and that Moraes denied his lawyers' appeals, preventing the court from reviewing the case. Dos Santos also said that petitions questioning the validity of the complaint were ignored and argued that deputies and senators should take the case to Fux. #Justiça #DireitosHumanos #Corrupção (translated)

Macarena Olona wrote that many were wondering why Ábalos preferred to serve 24 years in prison rather than speak. She also maintained that the next step for a Constitutional Court in service of the Government would be to annul his conviction and linked that possibility to amnesty, although she pointed out that, in her opinion, there were more details at stake. #Amnistía #Justicia #DerechosHumanos (translated)

Jamaal Howard was executed in Texas with pentobarbital, becoming the first inmate executed in the U.S. since the failed execution attempt of Christa Pike in Tennessee, which sparked renewed debate over the constitutionality of lethal injection methods. #PenaDeMuerte #Texas #InyecciónLetal (translated)

The Constitutional Court has stated that the Supreme Court's interpretation of the amnesty law in relation to the crime of embezzlement is manifestly contrary to its spirit and orders its application, which represents bad news for everyone, especially for the citizens. #amnistía #TribunalConstitucional #malversación (translated)