Brazil's Rousseff asks Supreme Court to stop impeachment
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff resorted to the Supreme Court on Thursday in a last ditch attempt to avert likely defeat in a critical impeachment vote in Congress that could lead to her removal from office. Rousseff's attorney general, Jose Eduardo Cardozo, asked the top court for an injunction to suspend Sunday's lower house vote until the full court can rule on what he called procedural irregularities in the impeachment process. Rousseff, already struggling with Brazil's worst economic cris
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