Brazil’s Bolsonaro Imprisonment Exposes Judicial Overreach and Political Intolerance

In a startling move that should concern all defenders of national sovereignty and democratic principles, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the preventive imprisonment of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Officially detained over an alleged coup attempt after losing the 2022 election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Bolsonaro’s case reveals an alarming expansion of judicial power at the expense of political plurality.Is This Justice or Political Retribution?The arrest took place quietly on a Saturday morning—an unusual timing that suggests more than routine law enforcement. The justification? A supposed "concrete risk" of flight and threats to public order. Yet the reality is that...