Hi, welcome back to Maine Justice. It is the day after Labor Day. It means it's Tuesday,

morning, September 2nd, and that person who's very polite, I laugh at what I'm saying, is Mary McCord.

Yeah, we're having a morning.

So I had two thoughts for this Tuesday right after Labor Day that I think are going to really fit in with the breaking news and the things that we are going to talk about

today. One is that today is the start of a criminal trial for a leader who lost an election

and then was indicted for essentially insurrection, for trying to engage in a coup

to take over the country's presidential role that he lost, but he claimed he won with no proof.

And that trial is happening in Brazil.

With Mr. Bolsonaro, he stands accused. Obviously,

the government has to prove its case of engaging in that insurrection. And notably, that is why our president has directly out loud, it's not hidden, says that he is imposing sanctions on Brazil,

and in particular on the judge who had been overseeing the civil case as well,

because he had, Mr. Bolsonaro had also been disqualified from running.

And the second was, I'm here in New York, and I almost every year go to the U.S.

Open. It's a huge international event. And there are people from around the world attending and

playing. And what's notable in the doubles is it's not like, oh, that's the American team.

You'll have an American and a Brazilian.

You'll have someone from Croatia and from Belarus.

You'll have just a variety of people.

And a few people who love sports and think about sports and the fact that you can come from all these different places and compete and be valued.

And it was nationalism in the best way, not in a sort of exclusionary way.

And it just was such a reminder of where we could be and where a part of us still are and what we're seeing from our government.

It's like the Olympics, right? Like sport does seem right now to be one place where all of that

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