Brazil chief justice says top court ‘will not tolerate threats’ | Al Jazeera

The chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court has said encouraging people to disobey the court’s rulings is an anti-democratic act, a day after President Jair Bolsonaro said he would not obey the decisions of a member of the court.

“The Supreme Court will not tolerate threats to the authority of its decisions,” Luiz Fux said during a court session on Wednesday.

Fux also said encouraging people to disregard court decisions by a “head of state” was an attack on democracy and a crime for Congress to deal with.

His comments come a day after Bolsonaro continued his verbal attacks against the Supreme Court in speeches to hundreds of thousands of his supporters, who rallied in the capital Brasilia, Sao Paulo, and other cities.

The Supreme Court has ordered investigations into the far-right leader’s claims that Brazi’s electronic voting system is rife with fraud – an allegation rejected by judicial experts as baseless – and his push to have paper receipts printed.