The majority on a Supreme Court panel in Brazil has voted to bring Eduardo Bolsonaro, the third child of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, to trial on charges of obstruction of justice.On Friday, three of the five justices on the panel accepted an indictment against the younger Bolsonaro, which accused him of using threats to interfere with a court case against his father.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIn September, Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced Jair Bolsonaro, who led Brazil from 2019 to 2023, to more than 27 years in prison for allegedly plotting to subvert his loss in the 2022 election by means of a coup.Eduardo Bolsonaro has been among his father’s most prominent defenders throughout his myriad legal woes.An elected official in the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo travelled multiple times to the United States in the wake of Brazil’s 2022 election, meeting with President Donald Trump and his Republican officials.In March, Eduardo announced he would move to the US to petition full-time on behalf of his father.“I will focus 100 percent of my time on this single cause: to seek justice,” he said in a social media video at the time.But a majority of the justices on the Supreme Court panel determined that there was enough evidence to suggest Eduardo’s actions in the US may have amounted to an illegal pressure campaign, designed to sway his father’s court case.“There is significant evidence that Eduardo Nantes Bolsonaro’s actions aimed to create …
