The former president of Brazil, Jaya Bolsonaro, was sentenced tonight to over 27 years in prison after a Supreme Court judgment earlier today.

Bolsonaro, who was president from 2019 to 2022, was found guilty of attempting to use military force to overturn an election and plotting to assassinate a political rival, the man who holds the presidency now,

Luis Inacio Lula de Silva.

His trial had already led to a confrontation between Brazil's current government and the Trump

administration, which could now expand.

Here's our Nick Schifrin.

In Brazil's Supreme Court today, a historic conviction, Jaiyar Bolsonaro, the former army

captain who became Brazil's first modern right-wing president, guilty of trying to, quote,

abolish democracy and guilty of a coup and assassination attempt on current president Luis

Anastio Lula de Silva, who won the 22 election

over Bolsonaro by less than 1 percent.

The guilty verdicts detail an extensive attempt to overturn the will of the people.

The culmination, Bolsonaro incited supporters to storm the seat of government and vandalized

the presidential palace just days after Lula, as he's universally known, took office.

A group led by Jair M.Messias Bolsonaro, composed of key figures from the government, the armed forces and

intelligence agencies, developed and implemented a progressive and systematic plan to attack

democratic institutions with the aim of undermining the legitimate transfer of power in the

2022 elections.

Bolsonaro's critics call today a victory for Brazil's rule of law, a reaffirmation of the

1980s constitution created to end two decades of dictatorship.

But Bolsonaro's supporters, and there are many, call his prosecution political, and they vow to keep up their

protests, including Bolsonaro's likely conservative successor, Sao Paulo's governor.

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