The US sanctions Brazilian Supreme Court justice

If Donald Trump appeared to ease his campaign against Brazil by carving out hundreds of exceptions to new 50% tariffs and delaying their enforcement until next week, he compensated for these moves by adding Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to the Treasury Department’s “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List.”

It is the first time a Brazilian official has been targeted under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and the first time in history that a sitting Supreme Court justice of any country has been sanctioned under the law — being placed on a list that also includes people associated with Al Qaeda, ISIS or Hezbollah.