Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela) organization
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Within days of the December 6, 2015 legislative election, an audio tape surfaced online in which a woman, purportedly a regional election official, boasted about having paid people to vote. Pending an investigation into the recording, Venez…
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from entering office. Rather than comply with the investigation, however, the opposition-controlled legislature flouted the court and inaugurated the compromised lawmakers on January 6, 2016. The Supreme Court reacted to the flagrant disreg…
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While it's unclear how the lawmakers intended to implement any of these policies without cooperation from the government, the opposition-controlled legislature continued to convene and pass measures without interference, revealing their neo…
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Venezuela's state-run entities, particularly its oil company, without any National Assembly stamp of approval. Justices announced that the court itself would temporarily replace the legislature's authority on matters of public industry, rea…
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The decision received widespread attention in international media, which highlighted the development to paint Maduro as a dictator. Venezuela muzzles legislature was one of the headlines in the New York Times. Meanwhile, outlets like NPR an…
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Venezuela's Maduro decried as dictator after Congress annulled, unquote. As the independent outlet of Venezuela analysis pointed out at the time, Western coverage willfully ignored the fact that the National Assembly could rectify the situa…
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Though many news outlets characterize Venezuela's Supreme Court as an extension of Maduro, the country's top judges were not directly appointed by Maduro. Instead, Supreme Court justices are selected by a committee of lawmakers and legal ex…
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even moving to unilaterally reprivatize Venezuela's oil sector without incident. They weren't arrested. They weren't put in jail. They're ignoring the Supreme Court ruling, but they were not rounded up. While the legislature, acting in open…