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Brazil’s Bolsonaro picks evangelical for Supreme Court seat

Brazil Jair Bolsonaro June 2021

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilAP President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday named Attorney General Andre Mendonca, who is also an evangelical pastor, to fill a vacated seat on Brazil’s Supreme Court, the conservative President’s second appointment to the 11-member court.  The 48-year-old Mendonca, whose appointment still needs to be confirmed by the Senate, replaces retiring justice Marco […]