Brazil's judicial council proposed firing corrupt judges outright, replacing a system that punished them with retirement on near-full salaries.
Brazil · Judiciary
Key Facts
—The proposal. Brazil’s National Council of Justice on June 23 unveiled a draft rule to let the worst-behaving judges be stripped of their posts.
—The old way. Until now the harshest penalty was forced retirement on a pension proportional to years served, widely seen as a reward, not a punishment.
—The trigger. A panel of the Supreme Court ruled in May that paid forced retirement no longer has any basis in the constitution.
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