In a move that one political scientist said appeared aimed at “promoting autocracy globally,” U.S. President Donald Trump’s media company sued a Supreme Court justice in Brazil Tuesday just as the judge was considering whether to order the arrest of former right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—a close ally of Trump.

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    filed a lawsuit against Justice Alexandre de Moraes in a U.S. court in Tampa, Florida.

    The argument that follows is literally that a Brazilian court didn’t follow the US constitution.

    This is as bananas as China starting to fine people that talk about Taiwan or the Tienanmen protests anywhere in the world.

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        He’s just stealing it from Texas allowing people to sue for abortions that didn’t even happen in their jurisdiction and didn’t even involve the suing party.

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        The US is probably going to steal any assets Alexandre de Moraes has in the US. But that will open a Pandora box - one that might make American oligrachs like Musk very unhappy.