I'm John Baxter. This is a Newark Report with Ernest Ruzo, former foreign minister

for the Republic of Brazil. We started in Central America, but we're going right to Brazil.

This is news about the very powerful and often in the news member of the Supreme Court.

His name is Alexander D. Marais. The majority of a five-member

panel of Brazil's Supreme Court formed a majority on Friday to uphold a justice's previous ruling

to suspend U.S. video sharing platform rumble in the country for not complying with court orders.

This is Alexander D. Marais, and it's much the same that happened with former Twitter,

now X, Elon Musk.

What's significant about Rumble is that it is part of the Trump media.

It includes true social.

So this is not just taking on another internet company, another streaming

company. It's also taking on Trump after taking on Musk. Ernesto, we need to understand

Alexander de Maurey. He's a member of the Supreme Court, and yet he's been exercising

extraordinary powers for some time.

I believe he was critical or at least highly effective in having Lula de Silva released from jail

and declared eligible to run for the third presidency.

Now he's taking on arguably the richest man in the solar system and arguably the most powerful man in the solar system.

That would be the president of the United States.

Where is he going?

What does he want?

Well, John, Alexander Morais is only the most active and most visible of the Supreme Court justices.

But they tend to act as a cohesive power structure

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