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Furor over comments about shutting supreme court in Brazil
Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press
Updated 4:39 pm CDT, Monday, October 22, 2018
SAO PAULO (AP) — Three supreme court justices on Monday criticized the son of presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro for saying that Brazil's top court could be closed if it tried to remove his father from the presidency.
Chief Justice Jose Dias Toffoli said in a statement that "attacking the judiciary is attacking democracy" as the remarks by Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro dominated news stations in Latin America's largest nation.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes called for an investigation into whether the comments threatened national security. Justice Celso de Mello, the longest serving member of the Supreme Federal Tribunal, told the newspaper Folha court could be closed if it tried to remove his father from the presidency.
They were reacting to a video released over the weekend that showed a speech in July by Eduardo Bolsonaro to people studying for a national test to become federal policemen. It set off alarm bells in Brazil, which had a military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985.
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this is sad. 
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