00:00Brazil's Supreme Court overruled the last legal resource presented by former President Jair Bolsonaro's defense ahead of the top court's
00:07formal review of evidence in the case where the ex-head of state faces charges of attempting to overthrow
00:13his left-wing successor Luiz Inácio Lula Silva. Our correspondent in Brazil, Brian Meir, with more details.
00:19Brazil's Supreme Court has just overruled the last legal resource
00:25presented by Jair Bolsonaro's defense team before the March 25th formal review of evidence, which is the last
00:33procedural step taken before the court can, if they decide to move forwards, officially declare him a defendant.
00:42Now after the Attorney General
00:44presented its final indictment on February 18th,
00:48the defense was given a couple weeks to provide arguments as to why
00:52the case shouldn't move forwards. Those arguments were overruled on March 13th, and on that date the Supreme Court set
00:59March 25th for this final procedural step of a formal review of the evidence.
01:06So when that happened, Bolsonaro's defense team
01:09made a formal request to remove Alexandre de Moraes, the investigation judge,
01:14from the ruling on the 25th, and also requested that two justices who were appointed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,
01:23Flavio Dino and Cristiano Zanin,
01:26would also be removed from deliberation.
01:29Well, that was brought to a plenary session today in which all 11 Supreme Court justices
01:34were invited to vote on it, and they've just reached the majority vote. Bolsonaro's defense team has been overruled.
01:40The formal review of evidence will take place on March 25th, and at that point,
01:45if they decide to move forwards, a trial should take place very quickly,
01:50with Jair Bolsonaro, former president of Brazil, declared the defendant.
