Rousseff request rejected:

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Brazil’s Supreme Court chief justice has rejected a request from suspended president Dilma Rousseff to annul the session at which senators voted to open an impeachment trial against her.

Rousseff’s lawyers had argued that some of the procedures used at the session, held Aug 10, violated her rights.

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Ricardo Lewandowski, who will preside over the trial, said Tuesday that neither he nor the Supreme Court could rule on the matter, as it was a decision made in Congress, according to a statement by the court.

Even if the court were to weigh in, he said, in his opinion the procedures used at the session “did not harm the accused.”

Rousseff’s defense team has already filed several appeals to stop the process, which have all been rejected.

Rousseff was suspended from office in May over accusations that she fiddled with state accounts to make the numbers look better in an election year. (AFP)

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