Brazil Court Orders Bolsonaro Passports Seized; Runoff Voting Extended Two Hours

Brazil's Supreme Court ordered police to seize the passport of Flávio Bolsonaro, the senator who lost the presidential election, and told him to hand over his passports in a money laundering inquiry. The court acted over his links to the investigation. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was reelected Sunday to a fourth four-year term, narrowly defeating Bolsonaro. He is the first candidate in roughly four decades to lose the first round and then win the runoff. Bolsonaro led the October 4 first round but did not pass the 50-percent threshold. On Sunday, Supreme Federal Tribunal Justice Cristiano Zanin ruled to extend voting by two hours, so some stations closed at 7:00 p.m. instead of 5:00 p.m. The Superior Electoral Tribunal extended hours and delayed the tally until after 7:00 p.m. Local outlets reported that Zanin's ruling applied only to stations not yet closed. Zanin was Lula's personal lawyer in the corruption trial in which Lula was found guilty.

Breitbart, on the right, leads with Zanin, putting his work as Lula's personal lawyer in its headline. It calls Lula socialist and Bolsonaro conservative, and it centers the extension, the 5:00 versus 7:00 p.m. closing times and the local-outlet caveat. Its excerpt does not mention the passport order. On the left, The New York Times headlines the passport order and money laundering inquiry, presenting Bolsonaro as the subject of the investigation. Its excerpt does not mention the voting extension or Zanin. Both outlets agree Bolsonaro lost and that Brazil's Supreme Court played a central role. They differ over which court action matters. Slate, also on the left, covers a different story: Justice Elena Kagan's speech at Catholic University's law school warning about the US Supreme Court, discussed by Dahlia Lithwick and Madiba K. Dennie. Reason, an alternative outlet, ran only a note marking the first Federalist Paper's publication on October 27, 1787.