nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210411-101033-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210411s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210411-101033-0 doi eng 342 23 Bustamante, Thomas Author aut Negationism’s ‘Day in Court’ Bolsonaro between Legal Defeats and Threats to Judicial Independence Bustamante, Thomas Verfassungsblog 2021-04-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Twice in less than a week’s time, the number of COVID-19 related deaths in Brazil per day raised above the mark of 4,000 cases. On 8 April 2021, the number of deaths reached its peak while Bolsonarism suffered two major defeats in the Federal Supreme Court. Bolsonarists lost both their claim to keep religious services during the pandemic and their attempt to block the opening of a parliamentary enquiry to hold Bolsonaro accountable for his executive underreach. Nonetheless, these defeats provided an opportunity to keep Bolsonaro’s antiestablishment and resentful rhetoric alive. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Brazilian Supreme Court Jair Bolsonaro judicial independence Negationism Godoi Bustamante, Evanilda Nascimento de Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/negationisms-day-in-court/ raw object